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• It's strange how we always want other people to feel what we feel. It must be a basic human drive. Misery loves company, right? Or when you see a movie that you love, don't you want to drag all your friends to see it as well? Because it's only good the second time if it's the first time for somebody else—as if their experience somehow resonates inside of you.

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  People, Want, Firsts

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• The thing was, if I had found a way to escape- even for just a little while- I knew the pain would be there waiting for me when I got back.

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  Pain, Waiting, Would Be

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• So," says Lev, as casually as he can, "you wanna dance?" "Do you believe in the end of the world?" she responds. Lev shrugs. "I don't know. Why?" "Because the day after that is when I'll dance with you.

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  Believe, World, Ends

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnWholly”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• Hayden shouts, "To the new Teen Uprising!

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  Uprising

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnWholly”, p.390, Simon and Schuster

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• You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.

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  People, Wish, Apologizing

  Neal Shusterman (2014). “UnSouled”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Lonely, Spirit, Moments

  Neal Shusterman (2010). “Everwild”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.

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  Fighting, Screw Ups, Flight

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• Well...you're a martyr and I'm a patron saint-I can't think of anyone better!

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  Thinking, Saint, Martyr

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

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• One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.

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  Past, Events, Murder

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnSouled”, p.402, Simon and Schuster

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• The living would come up with endless theories to argue, because the living were exceptionally good at arguing, especially when no one knew the answer.

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  Answers, Arguing, Come Up

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• 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.

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  Law, Educated, Nobody Knows

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

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• Walls don't fall without effort.

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  Wall, Fall, Effort

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• How easy is murder when one calls it by a different name? How much easier is it for the conscience to condone "reaping" than "killing"-and when one knows that death isn't the end, does it stop the killing hand for fear of retribution, or does it simply make it easier to kill, because, if life continues, how can murder be murder at all?

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  Hands, Names, Doe

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• In short, there are mysteries of science and of soul that will never be understood no matter how hard we measure, no matter how strongly we believe, no matter how deep our think tanks and how high our aspirations. But as anyone will tell you—for we all know this within our hearts—the impossible happens and grand cosmic mysteries are solved on a regular basis, although most of the time the solutions lead to even greater mysteries.

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  Believe, Heart, Thinking

  Neal Shusterman (2011). “Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound”, p.970, Simon and Schuster

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• There are mysteries in Everlost. Some of them are wonderful, and others scary. They should all be explored, though- perhaps that's why we're here: to experience the good and the bad that Everlost has to offer.

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  Scary, Mystery, Wonderful

  Neal Shusterman (2008). “Everlost”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Travel, Exit, Jersey

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• 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

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “UnWholly”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• Your hair looks funny," Lief said, as soon as the Ugloids left. "It stands straight up!" No," said Nick, intensely irritated, "It's hanging straight down." Lief just gave him an upside-down shrug. "Up is down in China and you're part-Chinese.

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  Hair, Chinese, Looks

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• There's a set of unspoken rules we live by when it comes to fighting. We can't help it. It comes from living in a civilized world. Even when you're fighting your hardest, somewhere deep down, you know how far you can go. But today the rules are gone. Today I fight not to win, but to destroy.

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  Life, Fighting, Winning

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

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  Thinking, People, Perfect

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• You can't change laws without first changing human nature.

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  Law, Firsts, Human Nature

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• He's become like that briefcase in the ground-full of gems yet void of light, so nothing sparkles, nothing shines.

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  Light, Shining, Void

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a quickening of her heart when she sees him. She tells herself it's anger.

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  Heart, Quickening

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnWholly”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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• What can fingerprints mean when they’re not necessarily yours?

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  Mean, Fingerprints

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; UnStrung: an Unwind story; UnWholly”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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• Suddenly it was obvious to Connor why they don't teach it. Once education was restructured and corporatized, they didn't want kids knowing how close they came to toppling the government. They didn't want kids to know how much power they really had.

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  Kids, Government, Knowing

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnWholly”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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