But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is. -Connor — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
With hardly any effort at all, she made me feel special. Just like all the other people she toyed with. — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Most people have two emergency modes. Fight and Flight. But Conner always knew he had three. Fight, Flight, and Screw Up Royally. — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't. — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
People would cheer throw confetti and then go about breaking the resolutions they had made only moments before. — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
...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. — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
The homes here are almost identical, but not quite, full of people almost identical, but not quite. — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
You don't like her, do you?" "Who, me? No, I love her dearly. Evil scheming bitches are my favorite kind of people."… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
The sad truth about humanity...is that people believe what they're told. Maybe not the first time, but by the hundredth time, the… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
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,… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
You're going to pee in someone's suitcase?" "Do you have any other ideas?" And suddenly Miracolina begins to snicker, then giggle, then… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
The rides are different for everyone. I'm convinced of that now. I mean, sure, there are some we ride together. Either we… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
It's strange how we always want other people to feel what we feel. It must be a basic human drive. Misery loves… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
What, are you totally psycho?" I shouted. "Maybe I am!" he screamed back at me. "Maybe that's just what I am. Maybe… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“Picking locks was not a skill he had ever cultivated, but he persisted day after day, turning the tip of his talon into different… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share
“If you come anywhere near my daughter, I will see to it that you are taken apart piece by bloody piece. Do I make… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share
Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug. — Neal Shusterman Copy Share
“The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when “should be” gets crushed… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share
“And you know the darkness beyond despair, just as intimately as you know the soaring heights. Because in this and all universes, there is… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share
“while an adult could rarely be universally loved, everyone could love the right kid.” — Neal Shusterman Copy Share
“It's like art, you know? Picasso had to prove to the world he can paint the right way, before he goes putting both eyes… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share
The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share
“There was never anything wrong with my life. Perhaps that was the problem... The crack in my life was the fact that I had… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share
“But fate is a freak when it comes to messing with your future in ways you don't see coming.” — Neal Shusterman Copy Share
“The sad truth about humanity, Risa was quick to realize, is that people believe what they are told. Maybe not the first time, but… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share
