Neal Shusterman Quotes

Statistically speaking, there's a better chance that some part of me will go on to greatness somewhere in the world. I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

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.

... always been a goal-oriented girl. it was both her strength and her weakness. She had a drive to completion that always gets things done, but it also made her inflexible, and stubborn.

Beautiful is dangerous.

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 once impossible.

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

...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.

You know that feeling you get when your leg falls asleep? Well, I suddenly had that feeling in my spine. Like termites were chewing through the marrow in my backbone.

Hope in the shadow of fear is the world's most powerful motivator.

The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when 'should be' gets crushed by what is.

There is nothing to fear but fear itself, " the captain announces from the helm, "and the occasional man-eating monster.

We're roughage, " Tyger said. "If we don't cause a little intestinal distress, no one knows we're there.

My artwork isn't evolving, it's deconstructing, and I don't know why.

Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest--that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment.

Which side was I on? There was no time to search for answers. All I could do now was ride on a werewolf's back, toward a destiny as hidden as the dark side of the moon.

But remember that good intentions pave many roads. Not all of them lead to hell.

And I think, if thoughts are worth a penny, how much less promises must be worth. Especially the ones you're likely to break.

On my fifteenth birthday, I came to realize that the expression spoiled rotten meant exactly that. We kids were the apples of our parents' eyes, and I, for one, was rotting from inside out.

Today he failed to change the world. As for tomorrow, who can tell?

Luck, however, is too dumb to remain consistent

Do we exist because others perceive our existence, or is, indeed, our own affirmation enough?

I can't help what I have any more than you can help what you don't

Please give me a single reason why I shouldn't hurl myself beneath the wheels of that bus.

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

Sometimes, Lev, I just want to smack you.""You already hit him with a car.

It's always the lesser of two evils.''I don't see why there have to be any evils at all.'-Connor

They will find whatever button will make you dance, and dance you will, no matter how hideous the tune.

Griping is for those without a plan of action...

Hole..." He grips Risa's hand tighter. "Hole, Risa, hole..." And she smiles "Yes, Connor, " she says. "You're whole. You're finally whole.

It made my blood boil so hot, my brain stopped working right.

The good Lord wouldn't have put it in your heart if it wasn't right.

I'm going out to find her, to make things right, or atleast properly wrong.

You can't change laws without first changing human nature... You can't change human nature without first changing the law.

Elasticity is a fundamental principle of perception,

while it’s five in the morning here, it’s also five in the evening somewhere in China—proving that incompatible truths make perfect sense when seen with global perspective.

...You know something, don't you?""I know lots of things--your inquiry needs to be more specific.""Just answer the question.""True/false or multiple choice?

Live by your impulses, and you'll be just like them. You're better than that, aren't you, Red?

We're this big melting pot, but someone turned up the heat too high, and the stew started to burn. Gangs, crime, fights, and fear are now a regular part of our local stew.

I love you, Risa, " he says. "Every last part of me.

How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?""They do it all the time, " says Hayden. "That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.

Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service, ' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.

You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees bottomless pit in yours.

You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees a bottomless pit in yours.

They all think medicine should be magic, and they become mad at me when it's not.

I begin to wonder if David was like me. Seeing monsters everywhere and realizing there aren't enough slingshots in the world to get rid of them.

I'm sure my parents must be proud. Or horrified. Or are bitterly arguing about whether they're proud or horrified, and have already hired lawyers to resolve the dispute. -Hayden Upchurch

First rule of motherhood, dearie: men are screw-ups. Learn it now and you'll be a whole lot happier.

You tell your brother he's gonna pay for that car in silver.

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

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