Quotes from Neal Shusterman

Man is often lost in a technological, physiological, astrological lack of logical existence that can best be described as a whole lot of nothing lightly dashed with an obvious hint of Scotch," Hal says.

Faraday's home was Spartan. Little decoration. Unimpressive furniture. Rowan's room had space for only a bed and a small dresser. Citra, at least, had a window, but the view was of a brick wall.

Somewhere in the secret recesses of Pfizer, or GlaxoSmithKline, or one of the big pharmaceutical companies, I imagine there's a high security dungeon where three hunchbacked witches stir a massive industrial cauldron of crap I don't want to know about, but I must ingest on a daily basis. And the generic versions aren't even brewed by real witches.

There was no lane line, no net, nothin to keep them apart but the well of her will. But that kept losing bricks

You're asked this a lot. Or maybe you're only asked it once, and the other times are just echoes.

To be either too good or too bad drew attention. As much as he hated being the lettuce, it was his comfort zone.

When the truth hurts, we always hate the messenger

and that dizzying gap between what she should feel and what she did feel was tearing her apart.

A place you will visit again and again. A gateway to all the places you don't want to be.

Then she went back to the kitchen, where she found her ramen had gotten cold. Great.

He looks very authoritative—even more so now in his uniform of brass buttons and blue wool—but authority and reason are two different things.

Mountains are created by upheaval. I'm sure it doesn't look pretty at the time.

Ah. That's Tonist code for, 'Leave me the hell alone,' " Curate Mendoza says. "You might also try, 'I wish to ponder the resonance.' That works just as well.

People are vessels, Jeri had said to her. The hold whatever's poured into them.

His eyes had a careworn coolness to them as if he had seen more than he should, and had stopped caring in order to save what was left of his soul.

The curb is the launching point for many a deed. To step off could be the start of a life-changing journey. On the other hand to push someone off could crush that person beneath the wheels of a truck.

She has no way of knowing that what occurred in his crate was a reenactment of what happened in her own, and in almost every other container on the plane. Fear, misgivings, questions rarely asked, and stories rarely told. The details are different, of course, as are the players, but the gist is the same. No one will discuss these things again, or even acknowledge having ever discussed them at all, but because of it, invisible bonds have been forged.

There's a very old expression, Scythe Goddard told him. 'To be painless is to be gainless.

What was friendship if it isn't some kind of love?

Cunning people find other people to drown for them.

You tell your brother he's gonna pay for that car in silver.

Count your blessings," the captain says. "And if you count less than ten, cut off the remaining fingers.

No puedes dejar tu huella sin cribar unos cuantos egos por el camino

That's primordial ooze! It's brimming with microbes! Back in the Age of Mortality, this single basin could have wiped out entire populations. It was called 'disease.