Quotes from Neal Shusterman

This place isn't a refuge, it's a slave market. Why doesn't anyone see that?' 'Who says they don't see it? It's just that unwinding makes slavery look good. It's always the lesser of two evils.' 'I don't see why there have to be any evils at all.

The harder you scrutinize randomness, Faraday declared, the more coincidence seems like a design.

Where are you, my dear Marie?

Ból to znak, ?e sÅ'abo?? opuszcza ciaÅ'o.

How strange to actually have to see the path of your journey in order to make it.

And then there's Texas.

Between them, the baby still cries. It's like a game of steal the bacon, where no one wants to take the bacon.

biorÄ™ teraz cztery proszki dwa razy dziennie. Jeden, ?eby wyÅ'Ä…czy? moje myÅ›li, a drugi, ?eby wyÅ'Ä…czy? moje dziaÅ'ania. Trzeci, ?eby zapobiec skutkom ubocznym dwóch pierwszych i czwarty, ?eby ten trzeci nie czuÅ' siÄ™ samotny. Rezultat jest taki, ?e mój mózg lÄ…duje gdzieÅ› na orbicie za Saturnem, gdzie nie bÄ™dzie nikomu przeszkadzaÅ', zwÅ'aszcza mnie

That's legally blind, I'm not legally blind Yes, she's illegally blind

Truth can only be served from a scalding kettle; whether you blister or make tea is up to you.

I suppose even a simple slogan can be twisted into whatever shape we want, like a balloon animal—we can even make it loop back around on itself, becoming a noose. In the end, the measure of who we are can be seen in the shapes of our balloon animals.

unwinding is, by law, painless.

We're all screwed, says our morale officer

You've got questions coming out of you like farts on Thanksgiving.

I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never waited; they were there upon waking. Our family has a problem with what they called delayed gratification. We want what we want when we want it, and we always want it now.

Thou shalt kill.

Hace tiempo descubrí que, si construyes un arenero alrededor de un niño dominante y permites que ese niño lo presida, los adultos pueden dedicarse al trabajo de verdad.

You know that feeling you get when your leg falls asleep? Well, I suddenly had that feeling in my spine. Like termites were chewing through the marrow in my backbone.

Because believing in nothing is still believing in something—and only by reaching eternity will anyone know the truth of it all.

But she was too deep into her rant to stop now.

Have you sufficiently boiled yourself, Your Excellency, or has the heat this year not been enough for you?

We leave justice to the universe. And what rings out always echos back.

Important work often loses the spotlight to self-important people.

His broken body wanted to hurt, but it was forbidden to. He remembered thinking, in his opiate-induced delirium, how sad it must be for a body to want something so badly and to be completely denied.