Quotes from Neal Shusterman

one cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.

Los símbolos tienen fuerza —anuncia—. Tú ves una cruz, y sientes algo. Ves una esvástica, y sientes otra cosa. Sin embargo, la esvástica es también un símbolo hindú que significa <>, y eso demuestra que los símbolos pueden ser mortalmente corrompidos. Por eso yo me invento los míos. Para mí están cargados de significado, y eso es lo que cuenta.

We make mistakes. Believe me, if Goddard is installed as High Blade, half of the scythes who put him there will regret it in the morning, but by then it will be too late!

We're roughage, Tyger said. If we don't cause a little intestinal distress, no one knows we're there.

Era adrede; les recordaba que, aunque tuvieran los puestos humanos más importantes del mundo, nunca debían sentirse demasiado cómodos ni dormirse en los laureles.

We've just inserted catheters into your carotid artery and jugular vein," says the nurse. "Right now your blood is being replaced with a synthetic oxygen-rich solution.

I ask for guidance. And for courage. And I beg - oh, how I beg - that I never become so desensitized to the death... that it feels normal. Commonplace.

Se vuoi qualcosa con tutte le tue forze, prima o poi la ottieni

You'll find in life, Caden, that many decisions are made by morons in high places.

What do I see when I close my eyes? I see beyond darkness, and it is immeasurably grand both above me and below.

Why do they need you on Molokai? I'm not at liberty to say. 'Not at liberty to say.' They should put that on your grave. 'Here lies Roberta Griswold. Whether or not she rests in peace, we're not at liberty to say.

Forse siamo come una moneta in bilico

Life is a dance that concludes on its own schedule. And so there we sit, keeping each other company as we wait for the last petal to fall.

There was a time, before I wound up here, when I would have thought all this was funny. When I was a member of the world, and not a member of "the club." The world just loves to laugh at the absurdity of insanity. I

Dove tu vedi vuoto, io vedo possibilità

what makes it funny to people is that it's a gross distortion of something very familiar. For

Sigils, as I recall from some dark comic book series, are symbols of medieval magic from back in the day when so few people were literate that literacy itself was seen as borderline magical. A man who could read was considered a genius. A man who could read without moving his lips was proclaimed either divine or demonic, depending on the agenda of whoever was doing the proclaiming.

Mi mayor deseo para la humanidad no es la paz ni la comodidad ni la alegría. Es que todavía sigamos muriendo un poco por dentro cada vez que seamos testigos de la muerte

I should already know that my thoughts are never alone.

it seems to me that these worlds we touch upon can get so dark, anything we can do to lighten them must be a good thing, right?

Mom removed all games that remotely suggest violence and death-but Cody's doing a good job of making harmless cartoon characters suffer in fresh and inventive ways.

Are people really such sheep that they can be fooled?

I know it's all true, but I can never prove what happens to people I don't know in places I can't see.

They conformed so closely to their culture of nonconformity that there was a uniformity to them, defeating the whole purpose.