Quotes from Neal Shusterman

It's neither negative nor positive in itself-it's what you do with the attention that matters.

Me prometiste contener ese genio! -Te equivocas: tú me lo pediste, y yo me negué.

Well, she could learn self-control tomorrow. Today she wanted pizza.

Tú eres bueno en las grandes dificultades, y eres un capullo en la vida normal.

These people were caricatures of themselves, he thought. They conformed so closely to their culture of nonconformity that there was a uniformity to them, defeating the whole purpose.

In the midst of their current helplessness, she felt empowered. How very strange.

Hayden passes his hand back and forth over the flame. He doesn't move slowly enough to burn himself, but he does move slowly enough to feel the heat. Hayden notices Connor watching him. "It's funny how a flame can only burn your hand if you move too slow," Hayden says. "You can tease it all you want and it never gets you, if you're quick enough." "Are you a pyro?" Connor asks. "You're confusing boredom with obsession.

Volume of curious facts and fictions of people who lived each day of their lives with the ravages of age and relentless approach of death. The brittle pages were filled with melodramatic and passionate short-sightedness that seemed laughable now. People who believed that their slightest actions mattered and that they could find a sense of completion before death inevitably took them, along with everyone they ever knew and loved.

That which comes can't be avoided.

It starts with a mild weeping but soon crescendos into the same tortured sobs as his little brother, both of them wailing in a strange harmony of misery.

No me gustan los niños. -Tampoco te gustan mucho los adultos. Ni nadie que esté entre unos y otros.

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

You'll be fine, Citra. You'll be back with Scythe Curie in no time—but you won't forget what happened today. And I hope you never forgive me.

Mom could have been a great sniper if she had chosen that line of work.

The emperor not only had no clothes—turns out he had no testicles either.

We're Pentupcostal because we're sick of all the hypocrisy.

Mira a Connor, que no parece preocuparse por dónde se sienta. No lo parece. Esa es la palabra clave con Connor. Se le da extremadamente bien ocultar lo que pasa en ese espacio desconcertante que va de una oreja suya a la otra.

He could grow it into any style he chose. Be anyone he wanted to be. Wasn't that the greatest perk of a perfect world? That there were no limits to what a person could do or become? Anyone in the world could be anything they imagined. Too bad that imagination had atrophied.

But yes, it is sad to live and die without knowing the truth of one's existence. Only sad to us, however. Not to them.

SPAM is my god. It's the only deity that can be eaten raw or fried. The stuff of Holy Communion. -- Hayden Upchurch

You see, there are some who seek celebrity to change the world, and others who seek it to ensnare the world. Goddard is of the second kind.

I've been having lots of wrong thoughts, Lev tells Pastor Dan. There are no wrong thoughts, only thoughts that need to be worked through.

You Unwinds are all the same. You think that because no one loves you, then you can't love anyone.

Citra wondered if all Chilargentine scythes wore robes that seemed not just handmade, but lovingly made. The woman spoke in Spanic and Scythe Curie responded in kind. "I didn't know you spoke Spanic