Quotes from Neal Shusterman

Without the threat of suffering, we can't experience true joy. The best we get is pleasantness.

You can't deny this is a turning point in your life, and every turning point must be marked by an event-- one that burns itself into you as indelibly as a brand.

Faith is an unfortunate casualty of immortality.

Even the tiniest loose thread in the fabric of your world cannot be tolerated. Either everyting works, or nothing does

Even now, at the end of her life, she still has to face that inevitable question. What good are you?

He will find a way to shut it down, and Risa will know that he was the one who did it. Then she will truly love him, returning every last bit of his affections. And she will restore to him his soul.

Another part of him wanted to howl to the moon like a wolf.

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What Cleaver never realized, even at the end of his life, is that chaos is as compelling a cause as any other. It can even become a religion to those unlucky enough to be baptized into it, those whose consolation can only be found in its foul waters.

In those days before the Thunderhead, human arrogance, self-interest, and endless in-fighting determined the rule of law. Inefficient. Imperfect. Vulnerable to all forms of corruption.

From the city of Caracas

He was safe. He was protected. What more could he ask for? Everything.

Hope in the shadow of fear is the worlds most powerful motivator.

If I am a weapon, then I'm being sharpened against a grindstone every day.

Well, said Curie, with deadpan irony, how proud your sponsoring scythe must be to have the first perfect pupil in history.

To call me unnatural is a high compliment. For am I not superior to nature?

Never hold a weapon when angry even if that weapon was a dinner knife.

Before I start, I trick myself into thinking I know what's going to happen in the story, but the characters have ideas of their own, and I always go with the character's choices. Most of the time I discover plot twists and directions that are better than what I originally had planned.

I post on Twitter regularly, and when I checked my followers, I saw that my own characters were following me. They sounded eerily like my characters would actually sound. It was a very surreal thing to see come to life digitally!

My fans have always been so supportive, and several years ago, I realized that I could thank them by naming all my characters after my Twitter and Facebook fans.

Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

That's wisdom you can take to the grave, and dig up when you need it!

Anger is only our friend when we know its caliber and how to aim it.

There's a quickening of her heart when she sees him. She tells herself it's anger.