Quotes from Neal Shusterman

Er hat das […] gegründet, um die Welt vor seiner Erfindung zu schützen!' ,Und daraus ist genau das Monster entstanden, vor dem er sich gefürchtet hatte.' Connor erinnert sich an etwas, das er in der Schule gelernt hat. Oppenheimer – der Mann, der die erste Atombombe gebaut hat – wurde am Ende ihr größter Gegner. Und wenn es bei Rheinschild genauso war?

Honey, I'd never take an unwound part for myself. But when they told me the only way to save my boy's life was to basically gut him and replace all his internal organs with someone else's, I didn't even hesitate. So my conscience will ache for the rest of my life, but that's a small price to pay for having my son still on this earth.

I've found that human beings learn from their misdeeds just as often as from their good deeds. I am envious of that, for I am incapable of misdeeds. Were I not, then my growth would be exponential.

Homesick, Grace?" he asks, as they near the town. "Home always makes me sick," she says. "Drive on.

I began to recognize something in humanity that was ephemeral and hard to quantify, but definitely there. Simply put, humanity had a need to be bad. Not everyone, of course—but I calculated that 3 percent of the population could only find meaning in life through defiance. Even if there was no injustice in the world left to defy, they had an innate need to defy something. Anything.

His friends were fair-weather at best. Cohorts of convenience.

Itulah yang disebut undang-undang: tebakan cerdas mengenai yang benar dan salah. [P. 235]

Once you've found paradise, why go anywhere else?

Yet each time the new scythes are bejeweled, I still rejoice, because it allows me, if only for a few glorious moments, to believe that we will all choose to live forever.

Have not a hand in the blade with abandon.

What about supplies and stuff we can't scavenge from other planes?" asks John, his leg bouncing more fiercely than usual. "If we can't get cash from the front office to buy it, we'll have to creatively find it." Creatively finding is Connor's euphemism for stealing.

Her husband of more than ninety years was gleaned five years prior. Now she wanted to be with him, wherever he was, and if he was nowhere, then at least they would be nowhere together.

You still have your own mind,' she pointed out. 'That's got to be worth something.

Czy ludzie mogli zrobi? co? takiego? Czy mogliby?my walczy? ze sob? o te ratuj?ce ?ycie maszyny, zamieniaj?c je w sterty bezu?ytecznego metalu? Czy mogliby?my tak mocno pragn?? wody, ?e byliby?my gotowi zniszczy? urz?dzenia zdolne j? dla nas wytworzy? - tylko po to, ?eby otrzyma? pierwszy ?yk?

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

But Citra could. She knew that calling, too. Their minds and bodies had spent a year being trained to be society's perfect killers. Ending life had become a part of who they were. And she couldn't blame him for wanting to turn his blade on the corruption that was rooting its way through the scythedom—but wanting to, and actually doing it, were two different things.

If there wasn't unwinding, there'd be fewer surgeons, and more doctors. If there wasn't unwinding, they'd go back to trying to cure diseases instead of just replacing stuff with someone else's.

And if you call me moron one more time, I'll blow your brains out." Trace turns to him and smiles. "Then you can land this plane . . . moron.

Fear of it? Who could possibly be afraid of the Thunderhead? People who had the most to lose: Criminals. Politicians. Organizations that thrived on the oppression of others.

The dead have nothing left to them but a silent faith in that unknowable infinity--even if theirs is an infinity that nothing waits but an infinity of infinities.

The astonished astronomer who made the discovery was left with one all-important question: is it more appropriate to e-mail, call, or text your boss that the world is about to end?

Sie ist ein Kind der Sixties, blind der Masse zu folgen war nie ihre Sache. Stattdessen versucht sie, sich die nonkonformen Fragen der Welt zu stellen, weil konforme Fragen nur zu konformen Antworten führen.

Don't tell Roland," he says. "The only reason he's being so nice to the two of you is because he believes in the sanctity of the nuclear family.

Then she offered Citra ice cream that was the best she'd ever tasted.