Quotes from Neal Shusterman

Las personas son nombres, las acciones son verbos. Peras y olmos.

Les gens peuvent se conduire en monstres. Que ce soit dans leurs actes ou dans leur nature, peu importe. Le résultat est le même. — Alyssa

Scythe Curie seemed a mix of many emotions, but she folded them all away, like clothes that no longer fit, and closed the drawer. Citra suspected she never spoke of this to anyone else, and would probably never speak of it again.

En matière de survie, il n'y a pas de seconde ou de troisième place qui tienne. C'est la médaille d'or ou la tombe. — Kelton

One hundred and thirty IQ points all focused on cooking up doom. Lev can't hope to compete with that.

Well, at least the music was pretty.

But yes, it is sad to live and die without knowing the truth of one's existence.

A game of chess, then, where all the pieces are invisible!" "If you like," said Greyson.

Dans la vie, on voit ce qui peut être accompli, on pèse le pour et le contre et ensuite on saisit l'opportunité. — Henry

You could have killed that boy," his father had reprimanded. "And why? Because of words? Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain. He would have gladly taken a concussion and a broken arm if he never had to be singled out as a storked child ever again.

All children in Madagascar were raised genderless and forbidden to choose a gender until reaching adulthood. Even then, many didn't choose a single state of being. Some, like Jerico, found fluidity to be their nature.

A self-important dictator gives permission for his subjects to blame the world's ills on those least able to defend themselves. A haughty queen gives permission to slaughter in the name of God. An arrogant head of state gives permission to all nature of hate as long as it feeds his ambition. And the unfortunate truth is, people devour it. Society gorges itself, and rots. Permission is the bloated corpse of freedom.

No outcome is certain, even when it seems so. Fates can change with the swing of a bat, or the flip of a switch, or the closing of a circuit. It all came down to how far you dared to go to accomplish what the world thinks can't be done.

People aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives.

Nelson tries not to react, but he knows that by not saying anything, his greed has expressed itself.

There have always been, and will always be, those who exist on the fringe of reason

I know they call me low-cortical and all, but even so, I got this one corner of my brain that's like Grand Central Station. Stuff that other people can't figure out comes easy to me.

You know the real reason unwinding keeps going strong, Miss Risa Ward? It isn't because of the parts we want for ourselves--it's because of the things we're willing to do to save our children. Imagine that. We're willing to sacrifice the children we don't love for the ones we do. And we call ourselves civilized!

2042 is the year we conquered death, and also the year we stopped counting. Sure, we still numbered years for a few more decades, but at the moment of the immortality, passing time ceased to matter.

Bit by bit, they come to appreciate inner peace. Which is as it should be. In time, all storms settle to a pleasant breeze.

Have not a hand in the blade with abandon, Cull from the fold all the brazen and bold, For a dog who just might, Love the bark and the bite, Is a carrion raven, the craven of old.

A successful lie is not fueled by the liar; it is fueled by the willingness of the listener to believe.

I find your shallowness both refreshing and disappointing at the same time. Do you think that means I need therapy?

did he want her to join him in his mission of ending unworthy scythes? Would she do it if he asked? Definitely not. Probably not. Maybe not.