Quotes from Neal Shusterman

Everyone just calls me Emby. Is that your choice, or theirs? asks the Admiral. Well...theirs, mostly-but I got used to it. Never let anyone else name you, says the Admiral.

Are you heading out or heading home?" asked 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.

Her eyes were on the brink of tears. If she blinked, they would fall— but Scythe Curie kept them pooled on her lower lashes, too proud to be seen weeping in conclave.

Er hat das Proaktive Bürgerforum 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?

But what good did that do now? It was as if they existed in two different universes. Dwelling on such feelings couldn't lead them anywhere good. Yet still she entertained the thought. She even considered saying those words to him again . . . but she held her tongue, as a good scythe must do.

She wondered if perhaps the man had been sent to end her by flattering her to death.

Man nennt es "Deindividuation". Es passiert, wenn ein Polizist eine Uniform anzieht oder man sich eine Sonnenbrille aufsetzt, damit die Leute einem nicht in die Augen blicken können. Es ist, als würde man sich aus seinem normalen Ich davonstehlen – man fühlt sich anders, verhält sich anders.

you're far from the greatest mind on Earth.

Being a dead prophet was much better than being a live one.

Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed. The

Don't you see? They get into your head! That's where they live! Everything is a manipulation with them. They didn't hire you for your skills, Raj – they hired you because they know what I like – who I'd like! They probably have a database on all my boyfriends, and every kid I ever had a crush on growing up. And I'll bet they have one for you, too.

Hello, Jackass Dirtbag," says a perky computer voice. "Welcome to your divisional experience! I am your fully automated Unwinding Intelli-System, but you can call me UNIS.

Ella era la clase de chica que participaba, mientras que Rowan era la clase de chico que evitaba a los demás.

In a perfect world mothers would all want their babies, and strangers would open up their homes to the unloved.

He preferred his martinis shaken, not stirred

I'd never want a piece of someone else's brain," Kele had said. "I mean, you don't know where it's been.

And so, I have no one but myself to blame when the scythedom befouls the things I have worked for.

Now he's far away, floating in the clouds, playing Scrabble with the Dalai Lama, but wouldn't you know it, all the tiles are in Tibetan.

It is the most difficult thing a person can be asked to do. And knowing that it is for the greater good doesn't make it any easier.

I was able to resolve these global issues in a single mortalage lifespan with acute single-mindedness. Since I am a cumulous of human knowledge, my success proves that humanity had the knowledge to do it, it simply required someone powerful enough to accomplish it—and I am nothing if not powerful.

pedestal is nothing more than an elegant cage. No walls, no locks, but unless one has wings to fly away, one is trapped. A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

Con la Guadaña es mejor pedir perdón que pedir permiso.

Les diría que si están huyendo, que huyan, porque tienen todo el derecho a intentar sobrevivir. Pero que no importa lo que les suceda, porque su vida tendrá sentido.

Who's the fat guy?" Citra asked. "He looks important," said Rowan. "Indeed," said Scythe Faraday. "'The fat guy,' as you call him, is the High Blade. The most powerful man in the MidMerican Scythedom. He presides over conclave.