Quotes by Neal Shusterman

“Don't you recognize me, Mary? It's your good friend Allie the Outcast - although it looks like you're the one who's the out-cast now." Then Allie realized something with far too much glee. "Now tha...”

“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, and it's one of the strongest pacts in the world. Just...”

“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.”

“The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.”

“She was deemed an unfit mother, in spite of the fact that she goes to the gym every day,' Hal once told me. . . .Beautiful people are often forgiven for many things--and maybe she's gotten through ...”

“It does, Tennyson, because theres a fine line between confidence and arrogance. Theres a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And youre on the wrong side of both lines.”

“I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.”

“So is darkness better than a heartfelt lie?”

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

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

“Makes sense, the earth is quick to consume the flesh of things that ain't natural.”

“There are worse things than being robbed..." I could smell the sick old-meat stench on his breath, like he really had eaten my grandmother. "...worse things than dyin' even. You be a good boy, Litt...”

“You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Im evolving, is the thing; Im a god becoming a constellation.The constellations are mostly demigods, I point out. And they didnt get to be constellations until after they died.He laughs at that, an...”

“How many kids are in the Graveyard?""A bunch.""Who sends your supplies?""George Washington. Or is it Abraham Lincoln? I forget.""How often do you receive new arrivals?""About as often as you beat y...”