Quotes from Neal Shusterman

Life would be so much easier without people telling us what we're supposed to feel—what we're supposed to do. Life would be so much easier if everyone left us alone.

Correction must be about lifting one up from one's poor choices and prior deeds.

Citra returned to Sythe Curie at Falling Water many weeks before Winter Conclave, when the Month of Lights had just begun, and gifts were being passed between friends and loved ones to celebrate ancient miracles that no one quite remembered.

With nothing to really aspire to, life had become about maintenance. Eternal maintenance.

Divorce really stinks. It's like going to the store and buying clothes, wearing them for years and years, then returning them and asking for your money back...A store won't buy back a pair of used jeans, so how come people can trade each other in, like it was nothing? If your only pair of jeans is torn, you get a needle and some thread, and you sew them up, right?

My real name is Shawn Dobson. Will you call me that, Rowan? Will you call me by my real name?

I feel bad for you, said Citra. Even when you're food shopping, death is hiding right behind death. It never hides, the scythe told them with a world-weariness that was hard to describe. Nor does it sleep. You'll learn that soon enough.

Let the dead be dead," agreed Rowan.

You may be responsible for your actions," Pastor Dan says, but it's not your fault you weren't emotionally prepared for life out there in the real world. That was my fault—and the fault of everyone who raised you to be a tithe. We're as guilty as the people who pumped that poison into your blood.

Por suerte, el corazón se le había enfriado tanto que ya nada podía dañarlos.

Everyone is guilty of something, and everyone still harbors a memory of childhood innocence, no matter how many layers of life wrap around it. Humanity is innocent; humanity is guilty, and both states are undeniably true." Thou shalt kill. A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery.

Entweder geschehen die Dinge aus einem bestimmten Grund oder sie geschehen einfach so. Entweder ist das Leben eines Menschen ein Faden in einem prächtigen Teppich oder die Menschheit ist einfach nur ein hoffnungslos verheddertes Knäuel. Miracolina hat immer an den Teppich geglaubt, und jetzt schätzt sie sich glücklich, dass sie einen Blick in seine kleinste Ecke erhaschen durfte.

Sin la amenaza del sufrimiento no podemos experimentar la verdadera felicidad.

É o preço que se paga, minha querida. Não dá para deixar sua marca sem coletar alguns egos ao longo do caminho.

We have just entered the worst of all possible worlds.

Which is worse, I wonder - watching everyone you know fall into that ravine, or shaking their reality with such force that it ruins them

Good, you're awake. I trust you've healed enough over the past few hours to be a little more coherent, and little less miserable coherent, yes. Less miserable, no. Just a deferent kind of misery

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

And I have faith that you will shine in your final test.

he'd learned there was something very satisfying to the turning of pages, and—as Citra had already discovered—the emotional catharsis of slamming a book shut.

It was hard to have feelings about something she was years away from even considering.

Some things simply made a person feel feminine; other things made a person feel masculine. Wasn't that true of everyone regardless of gender? Or did binaries deny themselves the things that didn't fit the mold?

How can you choose the lesser of two evils, when both evils are too great to measure?

Und wenn ihr Gewissen droht, sie in den Abgrund zu reißen, müsste sie sich dann nicht davon befreien, damit sie überleben kann?