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Quotes About Isolation

Have you ever considered how lonely it is to be the girl on a pedestal?
~ Neal Shusterman
It's February, and the walls are halfheartedly hung with Valentine's Day decorations that are supposed to add a sense of festivity, but just seem sadistic, because in an all-boys' detention center, only a select few are finding romance this year.
~ Neal Shusterman
biorÄ™ teraz cztery proszki dwa razy dziennie. Jeden, ?eby wyÅ'Ä…czy? moje myÅ›li, a drugi, ?eby wyÅ'Ä…czy? moje dziaÅ'ania. Trzeci, ?eby zapobiec skutkom ubocznym dwóch pierwszych i czwarty, ?eby ten trzeci nie czuÅ' siÄ™ samotny. Rezultat jest taki, ?e mój mózg lÄ…duje gdzieÅ› na orbicie za Saturnem, gdzie nie bÄ™dzie nikomu przeszkadzaÅ', zwÅ'aszcza mnie
~ Neal Shusterman
It was easy to deal with being invisible, but being noticed ?that was something entirely different.
~ Neal Shusterman
Still, if you've got to bring yourself within inches of your life just to cry for help, something's wrong somewhere. Either you weren't yelling loud enough to begin with, or the people around you are deaf, dumb, and blind. Which makes me think it isn't just a cry for help - it's more a cry to be taken seriously. A cry that says I'm hurting so badly, the world must, for once, come to a grinding halt for me. The question is, what do you do next?
~ Neal Shusterman
Our hope is that Challenger Deep will comfort those who have been there, letting them know that they are not alone. We also hope that it will help others to empathize, and to understand what it's like to sail the dark, unpredictable waters of mental illness.
~ Neal Shusterman
That is to say, I'm among them, but I don't feel with them.
~ Neal Shusterman
Ils rient et parlent de choses auxquelles je ne comprends rien et je reste figé au milieu. Ils m'admirent, mais seulement comme on admire une chose dont on sait qu'elle est sur le point de disparaître.
~ Neal Shusterman
A scythe could share their bed with anyone, but their life with no one.
~ Neal Shusterman
I wish I knew where he was today, so I could tell him I understand how it was. And how easy it is to suddenly find yourself alone in the playground.
~ Neal Shusterman
Even an acknowledgment from someone who hates him is better than having no one but strangers watch him perish.
~ Neal Shusterman
You Unwinds are all the same. You think that because no one loves you, then you can't love anyone. All right, then, if there's no one you love, then pick someone who needs to hear what you have to say.
~ Neal Shusterman
I marveled that people could live so close—that you could literally be surrounded by thousands who were only inches away—and yet be completely isolated.
~ Neal Shusterman
it occurs to me that all scarecrows look as if they've been crucified.
~ Neal Shusterman
I marveled that people could live so close - that you could literally be surrounded by thousands who were only inches away - and yet be completely isolated. I found it hard to imagine. It's not hard for me to imagine anymore.
~ Neal Shusterman
pedestal is nothing more than an elegant cage. No walls, no locks, but unless one has wings to fly away, one is trapped. A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.
~ Neal Shusterman
You think that because no one loves you, then you can't love anyone.
~ Neal Shusterman
She leaves him alone with the arm. His arm. An arm that bears the unmistakable tattoo of a tiger shark.
~ Neal Shusterman
But Greyson Tolliver does not know. He does not see … because his eyes are shut too tightly to know anything beyond his own anguish.
~ Neal Shusterman
What must it be like to go through the motions of life, yet not be alive? Keaton knows he himself lives, because he has compassion for this poor unfortunate creature before him. A creature that is doomed to be nothing more than a collection of parts.
~ Neal Shusterman
Well, perhaps this isolation was a Texas thing. Rules and traditions were different here than in the rest of the Mericas. They didn't call it the Lone Star region for nothing.
~ Neal Shusterman
Esa es la rabia que lo embarga cuando no hay nadie mirándolo.
~ Neal Shusterman
You Unwinds are all the same. You think that because no one loves you, then you can't love anyone.
~ Neal Shusterman
By nine o'clock all signs of land were gone, and the bright morning sky was dotted with occasional puffs of meandering clouds.
~ Neal Shusterman