Neal Shusterman Quotes - Page 9

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• What he's really saying is: Please be a human being. With a life so full of rules and regiments, it's so easy to forget that's what they are. She knows—she sees—how often compassion takes a back seat to expediency.

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  Compassion, Forget, Easy

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; UnStrung: an Unwind story; UnWholly”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• Then you'd better listen, because me sounding like Bronte is one of the signs of the apocalypse-and if the end fo the world is coming, good deeds could earn you Judgment day brownie points.

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  World, Deeds, Judgment

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• Would you rather die, or be unwound?

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  Dies

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

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• The woman wears a floral print blouse with lots of leaves and pink flowers. Risa would like to attack her with a weed whacker.

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  Weed, Flower, Blouses

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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• [...] every time he forces himself to think before acting, it's her voice in his head telling him to slow down. He wants to tell her, but she's always so busy in the medical jet—and you don't just go to somebody and say, "I'm a better person because you're in my head.

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  Thinking, Voice, Acting

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• The kiss was the definition of perfect. True, it lacked the heat, the passion, the breathlessness of the living-world kiss she had given Milos, but this had something greater. More than a flash of fire, it had an unbreakable, perhaps eternal bond of connection. Mikey had transformed back into himself by the end of the kiss, and the moment their lips parted he knew, as he should have known long, long ago, that no one - not Milos, not another Afterlight, not anyone in any world - could ever come between him and Allie, from now until the day they met their maker.

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  Passion, Kissing, Fire

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• (Why did they call them sneakers if it was so hard to sneak in them?)

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  Sneakers, Sneak In, Hard

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• Getting to know someone in blind darkness changes your impression of them.

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  Darkness, Blind, Impression

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• Lord, if what I'm doing is wrong, then by all means strike me down. Otherwise set me free.

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  Mean, Lord, Strikes

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwholly”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement.

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  Movement, Vectors, States

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• When it comes to such open-heart reflection, I'm a firm believer in the observer effect, which states that anything you try to observe is automatically changed by the mere fact that you're looking at it. The way I see it, if you try to study your emotions on a microscopic level, the best you can do is understand how it feels to hold the magnifying glass.

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  Heart, Reflection, Glasses

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• And," added Mikey. "she's my sister." The others looked at him for a moment, and broke out laughing. "Yeah, yeah," Squirrel scoffed, "and the McGill is my cousin." Now Allie burst out laughing, which made Mikey more annoyed. "If the McGill was your cousin," Mikey said, "I can guarantee he'd disown you.

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  Cousin, Squirrels, Laughing

  Neal Shusterman (2011). “Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound”, p.314, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm Switzerland; neutral as can be, and also with great chocolate.

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  Chocolate, Switzerland

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• How much do you know about the Heartland War?' Connor shrugs. 'It was the last chapter in our history textbook, but we had state testing, so we never got to it.

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  War, Textbooks, Lasts

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; Unstrung: an Unwind Story; Unwholly”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• The living do not see eternity, just as they don't see Everlost, but they sense both in ways that they don't even know. They don't feel the Everlost barrier set across the Mississippi River, and yet no one had ever dared to draw city boundaries that straddle both sides of its waters. The living do not see Afterlights, and yet everyone has had times when they've felt a presence near them - sometimes comforting, sometimes not - but always strong enough to make one turn around and look over one's shoulder.

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  Strong, Rivers, Cities

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• Lik the tree falling in the forest," says Ira. "Huh?" "You know, the old question - if a tree falls in a forest and no one's there to hear it, does it really make a sound?" Howie considers this. "Is it a pine forest, or oak?" "What's the difference?" "Oak is a much denser wood; it's more likely to be heard by someone on the freeway next to the forest where no one is.

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  Fall, Differences, Tree

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• He only wishes there were something that would heal the scars in his mind, which he can still feel. He sees his mind now as an archipelago of islands that he labors to build bridges between - and while he's had great success engineering the most spectacular of bridges, he suspects there are some islands that he'll never reach.

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  Islands, Engineering, Bridges

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; UnStrung: an Unwind story; UnWholly”, p.739, Simon and Schuster

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• Crawley reached into the pocket of his fancy robe - a dinner jacket, I think it's called. The kind of thing Professer Plum would wear before killing Colonel Mustard in the ballroom with the candlestick.

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  Thinking, Pockets, Plums

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

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• On a hairpin turn, above the dead forest, on no day in particular, a white Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur of gray.

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  White, Black, Forests

  Neal Shusterman (2011). “Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound”, p.10, 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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• ...if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened...but people like to keep what's theirs, even after they're dead.

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  People, Donors, Organ Donor

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• I'll never understand how a man can live his life With his finger on the self-destruct button, Holding it there day after day, Blinded by an obsession to press it But lacking the conviction to do even that.

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  Men, Self, Buttons

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• They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves.

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  Reflection, Self, Torn Apart

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Full Tilt”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• So much of my life had been under tight control. So much of Quinn's life had been wild insanity. What we needed now was both: a directed burst of controlled insanity.

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  Insanity, Needed, Quinn

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Full Tilt”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• You may feel a tugging sensation near your ankles.

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  Tugging, Ankles, May

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

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