Quotes by Neal Shusterman

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

“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.”

“Conner Lassiter. Scheduled to be unwound the 21st of November-until you went AWOL. You caused an accident that killed a bus driver, left dozens of others injured, and shut down an interstate highwa...”

“Then, in spite of everything, he began to smile. So much of his existence in Everlost had been full of despair. Despair, and a fear of losing what he had. But Allie was not lost, she was just there...”

“When I touched that boy, I felt something. Something awful. Something I cant describe.We all felt it, Nick said.You may have felt it, but I caused it. Then both his eyes seemed to go far away. Some...”

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

“So the gods must mean something else, said Jix.God, not gods! insisted Johnnie.Nick threw up his hands. God, gods, or whatever, said Nick. Right now, it doesnt matter whether its Jesus, or Kukulcan...”

“If someone had told Allie that she would commit a premeditated act of murder, she would not have believed it. She would have spouted off all the reasons how she could never be capable of such a thi...”

“How easy is murder when one calls it by a different name? How much easier is it for the conscience to condone reaping than killingand when one knows that death isnt the end, does it stop the killin...”

“Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem. In fact, a city is nothing more than a solution to a problem, that in t...”

“...the Statue of Liberty's got this invitation: 'Give me your tired, your poor, your reeking homeless--''Huddled masses,' said Ira. 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to b...”

“I always hear people talk about 'dysfunctional families.' It annoys me, because it makes you think that somewhere there's this magical family where everyone gets along, and no one ever screams thin...”

“...Our conversation with the supermarket manager had been about as helpful as a New Jersey road sign, and if you've ever been there, you know the signs don't tell you the exit you're coming up to, ...”

“And so, as the mob backs away to give them space... as the riot police holster their weapons, standing down, and as Risa takes the podium, calming the crowd with a voice as soothing as a sonata, Co...”

“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.”

“does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?”

“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.”

“I was asking if unwinding kills you, or if it leaves you alive somehow. C'monit's not like we haven't thought about it." (...)What do you think, Connor?" asks Hayden. "What happens to your soul whe...”

“Sometimes the darkness beyond is not glorious at all, it truly is an absolute absence of light. A clawing, needy tar that pulls you down. You drown but you don't. It turns you to lead so you sink f...”