Quotes from Neal Shusterman

Give him a calculator and he can change the world, but whenever the car breaks down, and the mechanic asks him what's wrong, his response is usually, "It broke.

who cared about the lettuce when the beef was being devoured?

But Sykora was the same as always: bureaucratic and managerial. The undisputed master of petty projects.

The Salton Sea is a huge dead lake south of Palm Springs. There's a town there that's the asshole of the armpit of the world. You'd fit right in.

Before the Thunderhead, governments had constitutions and massive tomes of laws - yet even then, they were forever debated and challenged and manipulated. Wars were fought over the different interpretations of the same doctrine.

But what if your mind becomes a pathological liar?

Please stay broken, Callie," I pray. "Please stay broken as long as I am.

Eres una persona horrible. Eres una persona maravillosa. -Bueno, ¿cuál de las dos? -¿Por qué no entiendes que la respuesta es ambas?

Suddenly it was obvious to Connor why they don't teach it. Once education was restructured and corporatized, they didn't want kids knowing how close they came to toppling the government. They didn't want kids to know how much power they really had.

I stand behind my decision. You see yourself as failing- but that's not what I see. Sure, when you're in the midst of your own suffering, it's easy to convince yourself that you're no good- but we are all tested in this life, Connor. The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

People say it all started the day that newlywed couple died at the face of Exit Glacier, but they just say that because people like things to have a beginning and an end.

Should evil people be allowed the freedom to be evil, without any safety nets? Is that what Purity was? Was she evil?

There's a theater on the next street playing a revival of Cats, which mankind will likely have to suffer through for the rest of eternity.

It will never happen for them, but somehow he's content in knowing that in some other place and time it would have. He holds her for ten seconds, twenty. Thirty. Then she slips away, and he returns to the dining hall. In a few minutes he hears her playing, the strains of her music pouring forth, filling Happy Jack with the upbeat, pulse-pounding sound track of the damned.

B)ut when you spend your days with evil, some of it is bound to soak into your clothes, like cigar smoke in a closed room.

Year of the Capybara.

I suspected you had a spark in you, but never dreamed it would be such an inferno!

Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because

May be the most powerful humans on earth, they are also the most vulnerable

We learn because we want to, not because we have to, so we learn faster. We learn deeper.

Only stories of love pass through our post-mortal filter, yet even then, we are baffled by the intensity of longing and loss that threatens those mortal tales of love.

Their sleep was dreamless, as it would be for a long, long time.

It reminds me that some forces of nature can never be entirely subdued. They are eternal, which is a far better thing to be than immortal.

I thought you were someone else," she told him. "Someone named Gerald Van Der Gans. . . ." "My birth name," he told her. "A name I surrendered when I became Honorable Scythe Michael Faraday.