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

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  Saws, Dimensions, Blind

  Neal Shusterman (2011). “Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound”, p.829, Simon and Schuster

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• On a sunny Tuesday - for it seems so many awful things happen on a Tuesday - six astronauts and one schoolteacher attempted to pierce the sky. Instead they touched the stars.

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  Stars, Sky, Tuesday

  Neal Shusterman (2010). “Everwild”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• Conner Lassiter. Scheduled to be unwound the 21st of November-until you went AWOL. You caused an accident that killed a bus driver, left dozens of others injured, and shut down an interstate highway for hours. Then, on top of it, you took a hostage AND shot a Juvey-cop with his own tranq gun." ..."He's the Akron AWOL?!

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  Gun, Dozen, November

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; UnStrung: an Unwind story; UnWholly”, p.385, Simon and Schuster

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• It's a big question. Where do you begin to change the world?

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  World, Bigs, Big Questions

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnWholly”, p.392, Simon and Schuster

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

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  War, Believe, Want

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Everfound”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• Which is worse, Risa often wondered, to have tens of thousands of babies that no one wanted or to silently make then go away before they were even born

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  Baby, Going Away, Born

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

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  Aim, Caliber, Knows

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnWholly”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• You are so obtuse!" Brontë says, exasperated. I am calm in my response. "Do you mean stupid, or angular? You need to be more specific with your insults.

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  Stupid, Mean, Needs

  Neal Shusterman (2010). “Bruiser”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• Roland glares at Connor and Connor glares back. Then he says what he always says at moments like this. "Nice socks." Although Roland doesn't look down right away, it derails him just enough for him to back off. He doesn't check to see if his socks match until he thinks Connor isn't looking. And the moment he does, Connor snickers. Small victories are bet­ter than none.

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  Nice, Thinking, Victory

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

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• It's called loitering, which is like littering with human beings as the trash.

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  Littering, Trash, Humans

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• I was asking if unwinding kills you, or if it leaves you alive somehow. C'mon—it's not like we haven't thought about it." (...) What do you think, Connor?" asks Hayden. "What hap­pens to your soul when you get unwound?" Who says I even got one?" For the sake of argument, let's say you do." Who says I want an argument?

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  Thinking, Soul, Asking

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• Statistically speaking, there's a better chance that some part of me will go on to greatness somewhere in the world. I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

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  Greatness, Goes On, Useless

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; UnStrung: an Unwind story; UnWholly”, p.55, 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

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  Cities, Needs, Might

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

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• 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.

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  War, Lying, Believe

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• This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.

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  Deeds, Firsts, Easy

  Neal Shusterman (2011). “Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• This game's stupid," said Lief. "Who the heck is Zelda, anyway?

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  Stupid, Games, Said

  Neal Shusterman (2011). “Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• Great tragedies have great consequences. They ripple through the fabric of this world and the next. When the loss is too great for either world to bear, Everlost absorbs the shock, like a cushion between the two.

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  Loss, Two, Tragedy

  Neal Shusterman (2011). “Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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

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  People, Can Do, Horrific

  Neal Shusterman (2011). “Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray.

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  Hair, Color, Shoes

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnSouled”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• Eventually your body will learn the alliances it has to make with itself,' Kenny had said - as if Cam was a factory full of strike-prone workers, or worse, a clutch of slaves forced into unwanted labor.

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  Alliances, Body, Slave

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; UnStrung: an Unwind story; UnWholly”, p.629, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't know what happens to our consciousness when we're unwound," says Connor. "I don't even know when that consciousness starts. But I do know this." He pauses to make sure all of them are listening. "We have a right to our lives!" The kids go wild. "We have a right to choose what happens to our bodies!" The cheers reach fever pitch. "We deserve a world where both those things are possible— and it's our job to help make that world.

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  Jobs, Cheer, Kids

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.333, Simon and Schuster

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• You have robbed me, and everyone here, of their purpose. That's not salvation, that's damnation.

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  Damnation, Purpose, Salvation

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

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• The way I see it, truth only looks good when you're looking at it from far away. It's kind of like that beautiful girl you see on the street when you're riding past in the bus... there she is, this amazing girl walking by on the street, and you think if you could only get off this stupid bus and introduce yourself to her, your life would change. The thing is, she's not as perfect as you think, and if you ever got off the bus to introduce yourself, you'd find out... This girl is truth. She's not so pretty, not so nice. But then, once you get to know her, all that stuff doesn't seem to matter.

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  Beautiful, Girl, Nice

  Neal Shusterman’s 2005 BGHB Fiction Award Speech, www.hbook.com. January 5, 2006.

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• It comes with being sixteen," Mom said. "You teenagers, you go into a cocoon when you turn fifteen and don't come out for years." "So they become butterflies when they finally come out?" my little sister Christina asked. "No," Mom said. "They're still caterpillars, only now they're big fat caterpillars that smell.

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  Mom, Teenager, Butterfly

  Neal Shusterman (2006). “The Schwa was here”

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• I imagine the center of the Earth must be a crowded place by now, but perhaps it is the spirits of those of us residing there that keep the Earth alive and green.

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  Alive, Earth, Green

  Neal Shusterman (2011). “Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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