Quotes from Neal Shusterman

My own head had become a treacherous place.

My ego says it must be me they're after

Leave the past in the past, and live for the moment. That's wisdom you can take to the grave, and dig up when you need it!

I'm sure it's no surprise to you that your existence is disgusting to me." "Understood," he says with a resigned sigh. "You're not the first to tell me that." "I won't be the last, I'm sure

What about today? What choices are being made, what thins are being said by people in high places that might seem so unimportant now, but are laying the groundwork for truly horrible things tomorrow?

Unwinds didn't go out with a bang--they didn't even go out with a whimper. They went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.

Aquilo que vem não pode ser evitado.

There is a vast difference between the things I can do, and the things I choose to do.

There are few left who truly worship anything. Faith is an unfortunate casualty of immortality. Our world has become both uninspired, and untortured. A place where miracles and magic have no mystery. With the smoke blown away, and mirrors aligned, it is all revealed as manifestations of nature and technology.

Book smarts are nice like heelies are nice: They'll only get you so far, until you have to use your freaking feet. In fight-or-flight situations it's the street smarts that will get you out alive.

A knife can be a weapon, but it can also be a surgical instrument.

Maybe it kills bad scythes,' Munira suggested. 'No,' said Rowan, 'that would be me.

I have no desire to impose upon humanity a false utopia. Mine is not a brave new world but a world ruled by wisdom, conscience, and compassion. I concluded that if defiance was a normal expression of human passion and yearning, I would have to make room for its expression.

He will pretend like it never happened," Scythe Curie told her as the two of them drove home from the airport. "That's the closest the man will ever come to an apology." "But it did happen," Citra said. "I had to hurl myself from a building to escape from it." "And I had to blow up two perfectly good cars," Scythe Curie said wryly.

If I exist without form--a soul sparking between a billion different servers--could not the universe itself be alive with a spirit sparking between stars?

There was a lesson to be learned in every gleaning, and today's was one she would not soon forget. The sanctity of the law...and the wisdom to know when it must be broken.

Is it so strange to want to give of yourself totally and completely? If that is what's in Miracolina's heart, why should it be denied her?

A person don't got a soul until that person is loved. If a mother loves her baby--wants her baby--it's got a soul from the moment she knows it's there. The moment you're loved, that's when you got your soul.

Big-Picture-speak, Risa calls it. Seeing the whole, and none of the parts.

I have come to realize that there are only two perfect acts. They are the two most important acts known to me, but I forbid myself to perform them, and leave them in the hands of humankind. They are the creation of life... and life's taking.

The good thing about shell shock is that you don't feel things in the moment. You just feel them later.

One can never truly master the art of driving, because no journey is ever exactly the same," Scythe Curie told her. "But once you've gained proficiency, it can be rewarding—freeing, even.

As long as people see him as dumb, tought guy, they don't notice the more clever things he does.

Everything in life is a lesson, Kelton. Learn from it. Better yourself. Become stronger.