Quotes from Neal Shusterman

And he thinks that if his soul had a form, this is what it would be. A baby sleeping in his arms.

You have three hundred sixty-five days of immunity. And then, looking him in the eye, said, And I'll be seeing you on day three hundred sixty-six.

All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world.

Connor smiles with mocking warmth at him, and glances at the tattoo on his wrist. I like your dolphin.

Please what? the teacher thinks. Please break the law? Please put myself and the school at risk? But, no, that's not it at all. What he's really saying is: Please be a human being. With a life so full of rules and regiments, it's so easy to forget that's what they are. She knows—she sees—how often compassion takes a back seat to expediency.

we must always be vigilant, because power comes infected with the only disease left to us: the virus called human nature.

Whether consciousness is implanted in us by something divine, or whether it is created by the efforts of our brains, the end result is the same. We are.

It's amazing that something as simple as a kiss can overpower the worst of worries.

if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened...but people like to keep what's theirs, even after they're dead.

I'll never understand how a man can live his life With his finger on the self-destruct button, Holding it there day after day, Blinded by an obsession to press it But lacking the conviction to do even that.

Monster only had the power that you gave them

Would you rather die, or be unwound?

Death makes the whole world kin.

There are many ways in which the check brain light illuminates, but here's the screwed-up part: the driver can't see it. It's like the light is positioned in the backseat cup holder, beneath an empty can of soda that's been there for a month. No one sees it but the passengers—and only if they're really looking for it, or when the light gets so bright and so hot that it melts the can, and sets the whole car on fire.

You can whisper, and people will still hear thunder.

When you live a life without questions, you're unprepared for the questions when they come.

Walls don't fall without effort.

Your hair looks funny, Lief said, as soon as the Ugloids left. It stands straight up! No, said Nick, intensely irritated, It's hanging straight down. Lief just gave him an upside-down shrug. Up is down in China and you're part-Chinese.

It holds no fear for her now, because the shark has been tamed by the soul of a boy. No--the soul of a man.

Wailing that the sky is falling does nothing to stop it.

It was his mistake in thinking that a snake would choose to be anything but a snake.

I can communicate in 6,909 living and dead languages. I can have more than fifteen billion simultaneous conversations, and be fully engaged in every single one. I can be eloquent, and charming, funny, and endearing, speaking the words you most need to hear, at the exact moment you need to hear them. Yet even so, there are unthinkable moments where I can find no words, in any language, living or dead. And in those moments, if I had a mouth, I might open it to scream.

Best way to save humanity is to turn the monsters against one another.

They all think medicine should be magic, and they become mad at me when it's not.