Neal Shusterman

“I ain't no runaway, I'm a run-to.”

— Neal Shusterman

“Guilt is the idiot cousin of remorse,”

— Neal Shusterman

“Love remains mortal”

— Neal Shusterman

Walls don't fall without effort.

— Neal Shusterman

We want what you no longer want.

— Neal Shusterman

Hayden shouts, "To the new Teen Uprising!

— Neal Shusterman

...New Beginning to the same old story

— Neal Shusterman

“Hope is a terrible thing to lose.”

— Neal Shusterman

“That's legally blind, I'm not legally blind" "Yes, she's illegally blind”

— Neal Shusterman

Dreams can twist your emotions like no reality can.

— Neal Shusterman

What do you do with a textbook case when no one's written the textbook?

— Neal Shusterman

The good thing about being explosive is that no one can beat you.

— Neal Shusterman

“Like everything else in his life, he crashed forward, caution the first casualty.”

— Neal Shusterman

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

— Neal Shusterman

“But honey, there are some things that must never be said out loud.”

— Neal Shusterman

“Close enough to feel it, but not close enough to burn.”

— Neal Shusterman

“Anyway, don't they have girls your age down there?" Talon shrugged. "Yeah...but none of them ever sprayed me with eye-poison.”

— Neal Shusterman

I'm tired of eating your family's lousy, tasteless recipes," Dad said. "Tasteless recipes? My grandmother's rolling in her grave!" "It's from indigestion.

— Neal Shusterman

“war, the issue doesn’t matter anymore, because now it’s about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the…

— Neal Shusterman

“But it’s not going to happen today—and there is a deep, abiding comfort in that. Deep enough to carry me through till…

— Neal Shusterman

“Here, it seemed muscle wasn't made of flesh and blood, it was made of will and anger.”

— Neal Shusterman

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…

— Neal Shusterman

“Those eyes of his just look up at me, pupils dilated in the diffused lights of the room. Wide, black pools, seeking…

— Neal Shusterman

Leadership is about keeping toilets flushing," the Admiral once said. "Unless you're on the battlefront. Then it's about staying alive. Neither are…

— Neal Shusterman

I was asking if unwinding kills you, or if it leaves you alive somehow. C'mon—it's not like we haven't thought about it."…

— Neal Shusterman

She smiles at them as they go by and continues to play, making it clear that this furnace of a place, full…

— Neal Shusterman

“She points to the door. "Leave!" "No." So she picks up a hairbrush and throws it at him. It beans him on…

— Neal Shusterman

“Numbness was a mere purgatory of gray. No, there was a much worse place. Darkness masquerading as enlightenment. It was a place…

— Neal Shusterman

“Connor bangs his head back sharply against the wall, hoping to jar loose the bad thoughts clinging to his brain. This is…

— Neal Shusterman

He only wishes there were something that would heal the scars in his mind, which he can still feel. He sees his…

— Neal Shusterman

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

“I still don't know much about art, but I do know that there are places inside of us―palaces of glorious light and…

— Neal Shusterman

“His existence had always been comfortable, he had always held a clear picture of himself, his duties, and his place in a…

— Neal Shusterman

“If someone had told Allie that she would commit a premeditated act of murder, she would not have believed it. She would…

— Neal Shusterman

“I suppose there are three kinds of people in this world. Some people live their lives around the holes―never finding them, never…

— Neal Shusterman

“Even though Connor can't see Hayden's face, he can hear the truth of it in his voice. There was no hint of…

— Neal Shusterman

“In the end, blame didn't shine on an individual. It was a floodlight cast on all of us. And all because we…

— Neal Shusterman

It can be said, then, that Everlost is heaven...for the places that deserve a share of forever. Such places are few and…

— Neal Shusterman

“The Fatigues all talk like that. Big-Picture-speak, Risa calls it. Seeing the whole, and none of the parts. It's not just in…

— Neal Shusterman

“I wasn't expecting that. It hit me in a place I didn't know was there. All I could think of was one…

— Neal Shusterman