Quotes from Neal Shusterman

The fact that we can't see the logic shows our limitations, not the Thunderhead's.

acorns and berries he can eat.

meu anjo – my angel

very painful comedy of errors

The world is full of bad ideas that turn into wonderful things.

Yeah! Someone says they freaked out and ate each other—you know, like the Donner party.

It's Honorable Scythe Anastasia to you

Just then, the Tonists began throwing rocks at the trucks. One came in the chief's direction, and he caught it before it could hit him. It wasn't exactly a rock, though. First of all, it was metallic and had hard ridges. He's seen something like this before in history books. Think! What was it called? Oh right--a grenade! And in an instant there was nothing more for the chief to think about.

suppose I could have found ways to medicate it away— but I have no desire to impose upon humanity a false utopia. Mine is not a "brave new world" but a world ruled by wisdom, conscience, and compassion. I concluded that if defiance was a normal expression of human passion and yearning, I would have to make room for its expression.

Bottom line: I don't believe anyone who says they got the answers to society's ills because society's ills mutate faster than the flu

She can't recall whether these were the colors of the pro-life or pro-choice forces, but then, it doesn't really matter. Both sides lost.

Don't be ridiculous," Goddard said. "Only idiots build walls.

We must, by law, keep a record of the innocents we kill. And as I see it, they`re all innocents. Even the guilty. 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. We must, by law, keep a record.

Heilige Sch*iße! Er hat das Proaktive Bürgerforum gegründet, um die Welt vor seiner Erfindung zu schützen!" "Und daraus ist genau das Monster entstanden, vor dem er sich gefürchtet hatte." Connor erinnert sich an etwas, das er in der Schule gelernt hat. Oppenheimer – der Mann, der die erste Atombombe gebaut hat – wurde am Ende ihr größter Gegner. Und wenn es bei Rheinschild genauso war?

We are angels of death," said Scythe Goddard. "It is only fitting that we swoop in from the heavens.

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

How wise of the founders to hide a kernel of truth within something so absurd. Who among the rational would search for it there?

Aunque ella debe saber lo que está pasando, no dice nada, sólo deja la cabeza en su hombro mientras las lágrimas de él le caen en el pelo.

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

But life can never be the same after a year of training to be a scythe

Pero, cuanto más leía, más comprendía los miedos y los sueños de los mortales. Lo mucho que les costaba vivir en el momento, a pesar de que el momento era lo único que tenían.

She would have asked the man why he stayed if he so disliked it here, but she knew the answer. He stayed because his greatest joy in life was to complain.

People live with blinders too; but ours are invisible, and much more sophisticated. Most of the time we don't even know they're there. Maybe we need them, though, because if we took in everything all at once, we'd lose our minds. Or worse, our souls. We'd see, we'd hear

T)his is the true core of human nature: When we've lost the strength to save ourselves, we somehow find the strength to save each other.