Quotes from Neal Shusterman

Anastasia felt inadequate among the greats, and yet they parted to make sure she was in the midst of them, as an equal.

We are imperfect beings, Munira said, How could we ever fit in a perfect world?

And he will love them unconditionally . . . if he can just get past the girls he chose to be their mothers.

Her appetite was a casualty of the day.

Unwinding isn't just good medicine—it's the right idea." It was the very rightness of the idea that made Nelson become a Juvey-cop to begin with. The knowledge that he would leave the world a cleaner, brighter place by dredging the dregs from the streets was what propelled him into the police academy

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

Funny, but the Bill of Life was supposed to protect the sanctity of life. Instead it just made life cheap.

Hope in the shadow of fear is the world's most powerful motivator. -Scythe (QUEEN CITRA #STAN)

The problem was that Citra was very bad at doing things half-fast.

We believe that flames are not meant to burn forever.

They were all alike, these Unwinds; sucking valuable resources from those more deserving, and clinging to their pathetic individuality, rather than accepting peaceful division.

But the feeling is there, like a wind at your back on the edge of a cliff, gently urging you. What if... What if...

Scythe Anastasia took a deep breath of precisely 3,644 milliliters, and slowly released it.

You will take no more than you need, and waste nothing. People will attempt to buy your friendship. They will lavish things upon you. Accept nothing but the barest of human necessities.

I can't believe that you're being taught by the Scythe Curie. The Grandma of Death! Grande Dame, not grandma.

And all because we longed for healing and happiness—as if happiness is a state of being. But it's not. Happiness is a vector. It's movement. Like my own momentum across the pool, joy can only be defined by the speed at which you're moving away from pain.

Tell them whatever you like. It doesn't matter, as long as you're there tomorrow morning.

WFor to put oneself above the law is a fundamental recipe for disaster.

E, a meu ver, todos são inocentes. Mesmo os culpados. Todo mundo é culpado de alguma coisa e todo mundo ainda guarda uma memória da inocência da infância, não importa quantas camadas de vida a cubram. A humanidade é inocente; a humanidade é culpada; ambas as afirmações são inegavelmente verdadeiras.

Morrison suspected he had no idea how many people worked behind the scenes of his "simple" life, because they always scurried like mice when they saw him coming. To the Toll, a fortress manned by dozens upon dozens of people appeared to be mostly deserted.

Guilt is the idiot cousin of remorse.

I have yet to decide what is to be learned from this region. Further study is necessary.

Those who wish to have the job should not have it… and those who would most refuse to kill are the only ones who should.

We can't make you do anything," said one of the scythes she didn't know, a woman in violet with PanAsian leanings.