Quotes from Neal Shusterman

Love, Allie concluded, wasn't blind, it simply saw alternate dimensions.

Adulthood can do the most horrific things to the best of people.

How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows? They do it all the time, says Hayden. That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.

What, are you totally psycho? I shouted. Maybe I am! he screamed back at me. Maybe that's just what I am. Maybe I'm that quiet guy who suddenly goes nuts and then you find half the neighborhood in his freezer. I gotta admit, that one stumped me for a second - but only for a second. Which half? I asked. Huh? Which half of the neighborhood? Could you make it the people on the other side of Avenue T, because I never really liked them anyway.

Sometimes, Lev, I just want to smack you. You already hit him with a car.

Hole... He grips Risa's hand tighter. Hole, Risa, hole... And she smiles Yes, Connor, she says. You're whole. You're finally whole.

Do I look feeble to you Actually, yes. Well, looks can be deceiving. For instance, when I met you, I thought you look reasonably intelligent.

the concept of the B seat, where one had to sit between two other passengers, had been eliminated along with other unpleasant things, like disease and government.

But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is. -Connor

does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?

His life has been like a ballpark, hasn't it? All lines, structure, and rules, never changing. But now he's been hit over the wall into unknown territory.

finding easy scapegoats for complicated problems had been a human pastime since the first mob of cavemen struck someone down with a rock.

We can lie to ourselves, saying we believe one thing, and sometimes we convince other's it's true, with the hope that by convincing others, we can convince ourselves. Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

B)ut when the time is right and the winds begin to change, even the deadest of dreams can be resurrected.

To name her is to sink her," he told me. "That which we name takes greater weight than the sea it displaces. Ask any shipwreck.

Most people have two emergency modes. But Connor always knew he had three: Fight, Flight, and Screw Up Royally. It was a dangerous mental circuit.

Time is never of the essence until someone decides that it is.

Heaven and hell - nirvana and Valhalla, reincarnation, hauntings, and so many underworlds, one would think the grave was a corridor with a million doors

Touch is a freaky thing when you're not used to it. It makes you feel all kinds of things.

Sometimes you have to be the monster to survive

It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely.

Everyone needs someone to blame.

Death makes the whole world kin. Rowan wondered if a world without death would then make everyone stranger.

You don't just go to somebody and say, 'I'm a better person because you're in my head.