Neal Shusterman Quotes

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• I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

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  Inspiring, Failure, Ambition

  Neal Shusterman (2014). “UnSouled”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• When you live a life without questions, you're unprepared for the questions when they come.

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  Unprepared

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwholly”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• Either things happen for a reason, or they happen for no reason at all. Either one's life is a thread in a glorious tapestry or humanity is just a hopelessly tangled knot.

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  Tangled, Humanity, Life Is

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnWholly”, p.382, Simon and Schuster

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• Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.

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  Teacher, School, Thinking

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• Who am I? The sum of your dreams, the thrill you refuse to grasp, the unknown you fear.

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  Dream, Thrill, Refuse

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• Sure, when you're in the midst of your own suffering, it's easy to convince yourself that you're no good—but we are all tested in this life...The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

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  Men, Suffering, Tests

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• There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things.

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  People, Ordinary, Ordinary People

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnWholly”, p.401, Simon and Schuster

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• Sure, I can talk like you, but I choose not to, It's like an art, you know? Picasso had to prove to the world he could paint the right way, before he goes putting both eyes on the side of a face... See if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist...You can take that to the grave and dig it up when you need it.

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  Art, Eye, Needs

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• When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things.

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  Care, Vulnerable, Cares About Someone

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• Small victories are bet­ter than none.

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  Victory, Unwind, Small Victories

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• In this world, there is a fine line between enlightenment and brain damage.

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  Brain, Enlightenment, World

  Neal Shusterman (2008). “Antsy Does Time”, p.145, Penguin

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• Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.

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  Unconscious, Battered, Bruised

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnSouled”, p.403, Simon and Schuster

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• Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.

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  Kids, Pedestal, Ill

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• 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.

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  Wall, Lines, Territory

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem. In fact, a city is nothing more than a solution to a problem, that in turn creates more problems that need more solutions, until towers rise, roads widen, bridges are built, and millions of people are caught up in a mad race to feed the problem-solving, problem-creating frenzy.

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  Race, Bridges, Cities

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Downsiders”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• ...One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.

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  Moving, Light, Long

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.

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  Mom, Mother, Thinking

  Neal Shusterman (2008). “Antsy Does Time”, p.149, Penguin

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• No true hero ever believes that they are one.

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  Believe, Hero, True Hero

  Neal Shusterman (2014). “UnSouled”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.

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  Hurt, Children, Pain

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Downsiders”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• If your heart tells you something but your mind tells you something else, which do you believe? Both are just as apt to lie. In fact, they play at deceit all the time. Mostly they balance each other, giving us that crucial reality check. But what happens on the rare occasions when they conspire together?

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  Lying, Believe, Heart

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• Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.

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  Dream, Stupid, Reality

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “UnStrung”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Love turns a heart to crystal...Much more valuable, but much more fragile.

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  Heart, Crystals, Valuable

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• That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.

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  Law, Educated

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Nuts, People, Guy

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• You see, a conflict always begins with an issue - a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a war, the issue doesn't matter anymore, because now it's about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other.

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  Hate, War, Differences

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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