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Quotes About Frustration

There are times I feel like I'm the kid screaming at the bottom of the well, and my dog runs off to pee on trees instead of getting help.
~ Neal Shusterman
Sometimes, Lev, I just want to smack you. You already hit him with a car.
~ Neal Shusterman
We weren't going anywhere, Nick said with a smile. He was trying to sound charming, but instead wound up sounding heavily sedated.
~ Neal Shusterman
How frustrating it is to have so much power, yet be so impotent to wield it when it counts.
~ Neal Shusterman
I think it's outrageously cruel to keep a puzzle that they know is missing a single piece.
~ Neal Shusterman
Whoever invented the spork should be killed.
~ Neal Shusterman
She points to the door. Leave! No. So she picks up a hairbrush and throws it at him. It beans him on the head and ricochets to the wall, where it wedges behind the TV. Ow! He grabs his head, grimacing. That hurt! Good, it was supposed to.
~ Neal Shusterman
It's like when you call the radio station when they ask for the ninth caller, but you're never the ninth caller, so when they actually pick up and talk to you, you figure it must be some mistake. Then they put you on the radio, you sound like a complete fool, and then you hang up before you can give them your address, so they can't mail you your concert tickets. Don't laugh - it happened.
~ Neal Shusterman
We tried to be good parents . . . but there's a point at which you give up trying." "No, there's not," Connor tells her. Then he turns to go, leaving them with the worst punishment of all: having to live with themselves.
~ Neal Shusterman
Our conversation with the supermarket manager had been about as helpful as a New Jersey road sign, and if you've ever been there, you know the signs don't tell you the exit you're coming up to, they only point out the exits you've just missed. It puts parents in very foul moods--and since you're probably there to visit relatives, their mood was pretty touch and go to begin with.
~ Neal Shusterman
I'm too old to rage against the system. I just whine at it.
~ Neal Shusterman
I wanted to take everything I was feeling, put it in a cannon and aim it at him.
~ Neal Shusterman
There are few things he can stand less than a bunch of morons standing around looking at something that doesn't work and wondering who's going to fix it.
~ Neal Shusterman
It made my blood boil so hot, my brain stopped working right.
~ Neal Shusterman
Now Goddard paces, whipping his fury into a caustic meringue.
~ Neal Shusterman
But she was too deep into her rant to stop now.
~ Neal Shusterman
Then she went back to the kitchen, where she found her ramen had gotten cold. Great.
~ Neal Shusterman
In fact, in the grand scheme of things, everyone was equally useless. That`s what he was saying, and it infuriated Citra, because on a certain level, she knew he was right.
~ Neal Shusterman
What is it that drives us to seek such lofty goals, yet tear out the foundations? Why must we always sabotage the pursuit of our own dreams?" "We are imperfect beings," Munira said. "How could we ever fit in a perfect world?
~ Neal Shusterman
These are a few of his least favorite things.
~ Neal Shusterman
You can't get in your own head sometimes. You can pace around it, you can bang it against walls, but you can't get inside.
~ Neal Shusterman
Give him a calculator and he can change the world, but whenever the car breaks down, and the mechanic asks him what's wrong, his response is usually, "It broke.
~ Neal Shusterman
Probably chicken again. He's sick of chicken.
~ Neal Shusterman
Esa es la rabia que lo embarga cuando no hay nadie mirándolo.
~ Neal Shusterman