Neal Shusterman Quotes - Page 5

In short, there are mysteries of science and of soul that will never be understood no matter how hard we measure, no matter how strongly we believe, no matter how deep our think tanks and how high our aspirations. But as anyone will tell you—for we all know this within our hearts—the impossible happens and grand cosmic mysteries are solved on a regular basis, although most of the time the solutions lead to even greater mysteries.

Because if their own parents didn't care enough about them to keep them, who would want them in Heaven?

Mental illness is by far the most misunderstood, and stigmatized, of all afflictions. Statistically, one in three families in the U.S. deals with mental illness, and yet it's rarely discussed in the open. It's time for that to change.

A family is a collection of strangers trapped in a web of DNA and forced to cope.

Dreams can twist your emotions like no reality can.

My grandmother used to say that twisting paths always cross again," he told her. "And whose paths are more twisted than ours?

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

... 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.

Revelations are never convenient, and always annoying.

I smell fear, he said with a quiet intensity. But not nearly enough.

How do you judge the brightness of a light when you’re the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts.

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

I have no idea,' he tells her, and there is such a spark in his eye when he says it, she can tell having no idea is exactly the way he wants it.

Tranq'd by your own gun,"Lev says."How pathetic.

Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.

If you have to ask then you don't deserve an answer.

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 your wife.

I'll never understand how a man can live his life With his finger on the self-destruct button, Holding it there day after day, Blinded by an obsession to press it But lacking the conviction to do even that.

They signed the unwind order just to spite each other,but laugh,laugh,laugh,Hayden, because if you ever stop laughing,it might just tear you apart worse than a Chop Shop.

You don't like her, do you?" "Who, me? No, I love her dearly. Evil scheming bitches are my favorite kind of people." (Risa)

We'll never be ready. So I guess that means we're as ready as we'll ever be.

Death doesn't just make all the world kin, it makes all religions one

History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

Lev smiles. "Leave it to you to turn someone else's screwup into gold

We want what you no longer want.