Neal Shusterman

“And she will restore to him his soul.”

— Neal Shusterman

Beautiful is dangerous.

— Neal Shusterman

I don't want to be empty on the inside.

— Neal Shusterman

“Guilt is easy, innocence is hard.”

— Neal Shusterman

“Death makes the whole world kin.”

— Neal Shusterman

Small victories are better than none.

— Neal Shusterman

“very painful comedy of errors”

— Neal Shusterman

Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.

— Neal Shusterman

Heaven might shine bright, but so do flames.

— Neal Shusterman

“The fact is, 100 percent of you will still be alive, just in a divided state.”

— Neal Shusterman

“Death must exist for life to have meaning.”

— Neal Shusterman

Monster only had the power that you gave them

— Neal Shusterman

Good in Crisis; Sucks at Normal.’ That about sums up my whole life, doesn’t it?

— Neal Shusterman

“(O)ne cannot let the event's of one's past murder one's future.”

— Neal Shusterman

Whoever invented the spork should be killed.

— Neal Shusterman

“Wars have a way reinventing people. And making too many things disappear. -Sonia”

— Neal Shusterman

It's funny how a flame can only burn your hand if you move too slow, you can tease it all you want…

— Neal Shusterman

His life has been like a ballpark, hasn't it? All lines, structure, and rules, never changing. But now he's been hit over…

— Neal Shusterman

“Who would have thought that the singular whole of her forgiveness was a more valuable gift than a hundred of her parts?”

— Neal Shusterman

With hardly any effort at all, she made me feel special. Just like all the other people she toyed with.

— Neal Shusterman

“Truth can only be served from a scalding kettle; whether you blister or make tea is up to you.”

— Neal Shusterman

Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent.

— Neal Shusterman

I can't destroy things so beautiful." "Time will destroy them if you don't. Time destroys everything. But if you destroy them, it…

— Neal Shusterman

“Innocence is doomed to die a senseless death at our own hands, a casualty of the mistakes we can never undo.”

— Neal Shusterman

“In a perfect world mothers would all want their babies, and strangers would open up their homes to the unloved. In a…

— Neal Shusterman

“Mooooon!” said the Ogre. “Tranquility …” Then he pointed at the full moon. “Neil Armstrong walked in a sea of tranquility.” Then…

— Neal Shusterman

“His life was a festival of excess that could not be contained. Deafening music, eye-popping bright colors, sugar added to almost everything…

— Neal Shusterman

As your older brother, it's my sacred duty to save you from yourself." She brings her fists down on the table, making…

— Neal Shusterman

And," added Mikey. "she's my sister." The others looked at him for a moment, and broke out laughing. "Yeah, yeah," Squirrel scoffed,…

— Neal Shusterman

“Do I get paid, too?' 'Yes,' he said without hesitation. This scared me, because Crawley gave money like bulls gave milk: not…

— Neal Shusterman

“…found the use of actual old-school books off putting, but over time, he'd learned there was something very satisfying to the turning…

— Neal Shusterman

“But sometimes you get a career and then you suddenly realize you don't have a life. Or if you stay at home…

— Neal Shusterman

“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences…

— Neal Shusterman

“What if . . . what if . . . "What if it's a harvest camp after all?" says Emby. Connor doesn't…

— Neal Shusterman

“So the gods must mean something else,” said Jix. “God, not gods!” insisted Johnnie. Nick threw up his hands. “God, gods, or…

— Neal Shusterman

“The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when “should be”…

— Neal Shusterman

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…

— Neal Shusterman

When it comes to such open-heart reflection, I'm a firm believer in the observer effect, which states that anything you try to…

— Neal Shusterman

“She was deemed an unfit mother, in spite of the fact that she goes to the gym every day,' Hal once told…

— Neal Shusterman

“What's going on? I'm in the back car of a roller coaster at the top of the climb, with the front rows…

— Neal Shusterman