Quotes from Neal Shusterman

Stick with me, CyFi had said, putting his fist in the air, and as God is my witness, you will never go hungry again. Then he added, That's from Gone with the Wind.

It is the plight of every child to have depth their parents can scarcely imagine. But, oh, how I long to be understood.

Beside him Acher kept pulling up music, but never let a song finish before looking for a new one.

her teeth, because he puts his arm around her.

Nothing about our own existence to decipher. Which meant that no one person was more important than any other.

It's just that unwinding makes slavery look good. It's always the lesser of two evils.

It seemed to Rowan that the Texas region had embraced its roots, and had chosen to mimic the Old West the way Tonists mimicked mortal-age religions.

a pawn can be as valuable as a knight in the right circumstance

La gente no es completamente buena ni completamente mala. Nos pasamos la vida entrando y saliendo de la oscuridad y de la luz

Humanity is innocent; humanity is guilty, and both states are undeniably true.

Yes, the Admiral is redeeming himself, and setting things right, bit by bit by bit.

But if I do find it, and if I am able to travel to the very beginning of time, the ramifications are staggering. It could mean that I may very well be the Creator. I may, in fact, be God. How ironic, then, and how poetic, that humankind may have created the Creator out of want for one. Man creates God, who then creates man. Is that not the perfect circle of life? But then, if that turns out to be the case, who is created in whose image?

All her hopes of a future have been torn away from her again-- and having those hopes, even briefly, makes this far more painful than not having had them at all.

One of the adults does his best impersonation of a DJ, and when encouragement doesn't work,he demands that everyone form a circle on the dance floor to do the hokey pokey. However, ten seconds into the dance, he suddenly realises how ill advised it is for ex-tithes to be putting various body parts in and out.

What must life have been like in the Age of Mortality? Full of passions, both good and bad. Fear giving rise to faith. Despair giving meaning to elation.

In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But it isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.

People who spread rumors...like lies better than they like the truth. Don't trust anyone who spreads rumors.

L'immortalité nous a transformés en personnages de dessins animés.

because no bill was, or would ever be, brought to a scythe.

I feel bad for you," Citra said. "Even when you're food shopping, death is hiding right behind the milk.

Last I heard, no one's been deaf for two hundred years.

Nous sommes devenus contre nature à partir du moment où nous avons conquis la mort

The thought of a scythe having milk and cookies before bed bordered on absurd to Citra. But she suppose even an agent of death would have guilty pleasures.

You've got to do something you've never done, to have something you've never had.