Neal Shusterman Quotes - Page 5

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• It's funny how a flame can only burn your hand if you move too slow, you can tease it all you want and it never gets you, if your quick enough.

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  Moving, Flames, Hands

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; UnStrung: an Unwind story; UnWholly”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• Already Roland feels his limbs starting to go numb. He swallows hard. "I hate this. I hate you. I hate all of you." "I understand.

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  Hate, Numb, Starting

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• Then she offers him a slim but sincere smile, and he reluctantly returns it. It doesn't bridge the gap between them, but at least it marks the spot where the bridge might be built.

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  Bridges, Might, Gaps

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwholly”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you know that if you take the books in an average school library and stretched out all those words into a single line, the line would go all the way around the world? Actually, I made that up, but doesn't it sound like it should be true?

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  Book, School, Average

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• And next to Allie, the screamer, once more reminded of his job, began to wail in Allie's ear. Reflexively Allie clapped her hand over his mouth. "That," she said, "is totally uncalled for. Don't do that again. Ever." The screamer looked at her with worried eyes. "Are we clear on this subject?" said Allie. The screamer nodded and she removed her hand. "Can I scream a little?" he asked. "No," said Allie. "Your screaming days are over." "Darn." And he was quiet thereafter.

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  Jobs, Eye, Hands

  Neal Shusterman (2011). “Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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• The scariest thing of all is never knowing what you're suddenly going to believe.

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  Believe, Knowing

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• They say you never know who's the real hero and who's the real coward until you're looking death in the face. I've always been afraid of plenty of things, but fear isn't what makes you a coward. It's how depraved your heart becomes when fear gets pumped through it.

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  Real, Hero, Heart

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Full Tilt”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• We weren't going anywhere," Nick said with a smile. He was trying to sound charming, but instead wound up sounding heavily sedated.

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  Trying, Sound, Charming

  Neal Shusterman (2011). “Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• I mean, it's like we all get our raw materials from our families―but it's up to us whether we build bridges or bombs.

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  Mean, Bridges, Raw Materials

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

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• Because if their own parents didn't care enough about them to keep them, who would want them in Heaven?

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  Parent, Heaven, Care

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• Mental illness is by far the most misunderstood, and stigmatized, of all afflictions. Statistically, one in three families in the U.S. deals with mental illness, and yet it's rarely discussed in the open. It's time for that to change.

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  Misunderstood, Three, Affliction

  "Five questions for Neal Shusterman". Interview with Elissa Gershowitz, www.hbook.com. March 9, 2015.

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• A family is a collection of strangers trapped in a web of DNA and forced to cope.

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  Dna, Stranger, Collections

  Neal Shusterman (2008). “Antsy Does Time”, p.155, Penguin

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• Dreams can twist your emotions like no reality can.

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  Dream, Reality, Twists

  Neal Shusterman (2006). “Dread Locks #1”, p.84, Penguin

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• My grandmother used to say that twisting paths always cross again," he told her. "And whose paths are more twisted than ours?

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  Grandmother, Path, Twisted

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Downsiders”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.

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  Lying, Fate, Should Have

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• How many kids are in the Graveyard?" "A bunch." "Who sends your supplies?" "George Washington. Or is it Abraham Lincoln? I forget." "How often do you receive new arrivals?" "About as often as you beat your wife.

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  Kids, Wife, Forget

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; UnStrung: an Unwind story; UnWholly”, p.855, Simon and Schuster

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• History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

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  Wind, Corporate, Written

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• You don't like her, do you?" "Who, me? No, I love her dearly. Evil scheming bitches are my favorite kind of people." (Risa)

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  People, Evil, Like Her

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• I have no idea,' he tells her, and there is such a spark in his eye when he says it, she can tell having no idea is exactly the way he wants it.

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  Eye, Ideas, Want

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwholly”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• You're going to pee in someone's suitcase?" "Do you have any other ideas?" And suddenly Miracolina begins to snicker, then giggle, then giggle, then cackle uncontrollably. "He's going to pee in someone's suitcase!" "Quiet! Do you want people on the bus to hear you?" But Miracolina is beyond help. She's entered into a fullfledged laughter fit-the kind that leaves your stomach hurting. "They're gonna open their suitcase," she blurts between bursts of glee, "And their clothes’ll be full of pee!

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  Hurt, Laughter, Ideas

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• We want what you no longer want.

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  Want

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnWholly”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• Lev smiles. "Leave it to you to turn someone else's screwup into gold

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  Gold, Turns

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “UnWholly”, p.396, Simon and Schuster

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• A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

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  Pedestal, Prison, Insidious

  Neal Shusterman (2014). “UnSouled”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes, though, you make a pact with yourself. I'll pretend there's nothing wrong if you pretend there's nothing wrong. It's called denial, and it's one of the strongest pacts in the world. Just ask all those people who were still drinking champagne while the Titanic went down.

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  Drinking, People, Denial

  Neal Shusterman (2006). “Dread locks”

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• Death doesn't just make all the world kin, it makes all religions one

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  World

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; Unstrung: an Unwind Story; Unwholly”, p.745, Simon and Schuster

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