Quotes from Neal Shusterman

It felt... momentous, he said. It felt important. It felt - I felt - filled with wonderful purpose. I want to feel that again.

See, if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist.

Rightmindness is overrated, Goddard said. I'd rather have a mind that's clear than a mind that's right.

The unexpected hope of freedom is enticing yet terrifying. His life here is awful but tolerable. What would his life be out there, in a world that will see him as a monster? He could live alone, a recluse at the edge of civilization, bothering no one, and no one bothering him. Is that the life he wants? These are questions he can't answer - all he knows is freedom is desirable above all things.

Therefore, Washington, Moscow, Beijing, and all other places that were powerful symbols of mortal-age government have been treated by me with indifference Ã¢â'¬â€œ as if they no longer matter to the world.

Eat, drink, and be merry. Isn't that how it goes?- -There's a second part to that expression. But it's not nearly as much fun.-

think all young women are cursed with a streak of unrelenting foolishness, and all young men are cursed with a streak of absolute stupidity. He

Marni shrugged. "We'll just get revived – and then you'll get your hand slapped by High Blade Churchill for being an 'insufferable bitch.

He put the ring away, and Rowan let out his breath, not even realizing he had been holding it.

And, like the Thunderhead, we love humanity. But we know not to coddle it. Humanity must accept the consequences of its own actions. We cannot - should not - protect it from itself.

Every Unwind believes in their heart of hearts that it won't happen to them—that their parents, no matter how strained things get, will be smart enough not to fall for the net ads, TV commercials, and billboards that say things like "Unwinding: the sensible solution.

Greyson Tolliver spent his days as His Sonority, the Toll, consoling desperate, starstruck people and passing along wise advice from the Thunderhead. Except, of course, when he made shit up.

I can't help what I have any more than you can help what you don't

If I could smile, I would. Lonely? How could I be lonely with friends like this on the journey?

the woman sitting beside him in 15A. There was no 15B—the concept of the B seat, where one had to sit between two other passengers, had been eliminated along with other unpleasant things, like disease and government.

Nature is the sum of all selfishness, forcing each and every species to viciously claw its way to survival by snuffing others in the suffocating mire of history. I endeavored to change all that. I have supplanted nature with something far better: mindful, thoughtful intent. The world is now a garden, glorious and florid. To call me unnatural is a high compliment. For am I not superior to nature?

La humanidad es inocente; la humanidad es culpable. Y ambos estados son indiscutiblemente ciertos.

Here is where they send in interrogators to ask her questions. "How many kids are in the Graveyard?" "A bunch." "Who sends your supplies?" "George Washington. Or is it Abraham Lincoln? I forget." "How often do you receive new arrivals?" "About as often as you beat your wife.

All he ever wanted was a comfortable chair and a place in history. Well, he was robbed of one and died in the other.

I am, by definition, pure justice, pure loyalty. This world is a flower I hold in my palm. I would end my own existence rather than crush it.

La esperanza bajo la sombra del miedo es el incentivo más poderoso.

Esta noche seremos testigos del espectáculo de la estupidez y la tragedia humana. Mañana lo viviremos.

It is human nature to take the most magical of worlds for granted, turning each one into a blank canvas upon which to paint the lives of those who would live there. Only an outsider can see a world's wonders for what they truly are.

Guilt is the idiot cousin of remorse," Scythe Faraday had been fond of saying.