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Neal Shusterman Quotes about Heart

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If your heart tells you something but your mind tells you something else, which do you believe? Both are just as apt to lie. In fact, they play at deceit all the time. Mostly they balance each other, giving us that

If your heart tells you something but your mind tells you something else, which do you believe? Both are just as apt to lie. In fact, they play at deceit all the time. Mostly they balance each other, giving us that crucial reality check. But what happens on the rare occasions when they conspire together?

Neal Shusterman
Lying, Believe, Heart

Love turns a heart to crystal...Much more valuable, but much more fragile.

Neal Shusterman
Heart, Crystals, Valuable

What's the point of living if you're going to hate the world? Guard your heart if you have to, but don't shut it away.

Neal Shusterman
Hate, Heart, World

You think you want to know the secrets of the universe. You think you want to see the way things all fit together. You believe in your heart of hearts that enlightenment will save the world and set you free. Maybe it will. But the path to enlightenment is rarely a pleasant one.

Neal Shusterman
Believe, Heart, Thinking

There's a quickening of her heart when she sees him. She tells herself it's anger.

Neal Shusterman
Heart, Quickening
Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnWholly”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

They say you never know who's the real hero and who's the real coward until you're looking death in the face. I've always been afraid of plenty of things, but fear isn't what makes you a coward. It's how depraved your heart becomes when fear gets pumped through it.

Neal Shusterman
Real, Hero, Heart
Neal Shusterman (2012). “Full Tilt”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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.

Neal Shusterman
Believe, Heart, Thinking
Neal Shusterman (2011). “Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound”, p.970, Simon and Schuster

Sometimes we make our alliances not by the shape and color of our flesh but by the convictions of our heart.

Neal Shusterman
Heart, Color, Alliances

The eternally sleeping princess, thinks Cam. But I shall free you from those poisoned brambles that surround your heart. And then you will have no choice but to love me.

Neal Shusterman
Princess, Heart, Sleep
Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwholly”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

When it comes to such open-heart reflection, I'm a firm believer in the observer effect, which states that anything you try to observe is automatically changed by the mere fact that you're looking at it. The way I see it, if you try to study your emotions on a microscopic level, the best you can do is understand how it feels to hold the magnifying glass.

Neal Shusterman
Heart, Reflection, Glasses

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