Quotes from Neal Shusterman

Connor's arms are still wrapped around the guy's ankles, and he finds there's only one thing he can say under the circumstances. "Nice socks.

Você aprende uma coisa depois de ter vivido tanto quanto eu vivi: as pessoas não são completamente boas nem completamente ruins. A gente passa a vida toda entrando e saindo das sombras e da luz. Neste momento eu estou feliz por estar na luz.

Lev had agreed to go with him because he knew the two tilled a need in each other. CyFi was like a preacher with no flock. He couldn't exist without an audience, and Lev needed someone who could fill his head with ideas, to replace the lifetime of ideas that had been taken from him.

It was a dream. Reality got in the way, that's all. And running away doesn't solve anything

You can be anyone you want to be now, Unwind (pg. 80)

No one calls me Cyrus

If a baby was going to be so unloved, why would God want it brought into the world?

You think that because no one loves you, then you can't love anyone.

She leaves him alone with the arm. His arm. An arm that bears the unmistakable tattoo of a tiger shark.

She closed her eyes again, and tried to reboot. Human brains, she knew, could be like computers, especially in the time that hung between sleep and wakefulness. Sometimes you said strange things, did even stranger things, and once in a while you couldn't figure out exactly how you got where you got.

It's stupid to die because of a turd growing on your face." Connor has to smile. "Truer words were never spoken.

Citra slumped in her chair. I don't fail, she said.

A person don't got a soul until that person is loved.

She knew the greatest gift she could give her mentor was to listen.

It's an Event. Events bypass anger, straight to damage control.

Copper aspires to gold, and glass to a precious gem

He confessed over and over again to anyone willing to listen, until finally a police officer kindly offered to arrest him.

It's always the lesser of two evils. I don't see why there have to be any evils at all.

The lettuce elevated to a place of honor.

I wasn't making a mark," Anastasia told her. "I was putting my finger in a dyke. And it's still there.

Have you given any thought to my offer?" Roberta asks her. "I don't need to. I already gave you my answer." "It's very noble to stand on principle and refuse an unwound spine," Roberta says. "It does, however, represent a wrongful mind-set that is neither productive nor adaptive. It's backward, actually, and it makes you part of the problem.

It didn't take long for ethics to be crushed by greed.

but I have a suspicion that fecal matter will be floating to the surface during this conclave. We'll see how badly it stinks of conspiracy

After all, a thirteen-year-old shouldn't use a handheld missile launcher without proper instruction.