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Neal Shusterman is an American writer of young-adult fiction. He won the 2015 National Book Award for Young People's Literature for his book Challenger Deep and his novel, Scythe, was a 2017 Michael L. Printz Honor book. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. November 1962
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Famous Neal Shusterman Quotes

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

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

“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

Source: Bruiser

“The moment you're loved, that's when you got your soul.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

“We move in and out of darkness and light all our lives. Right now I'm pleased to be in the light.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

“Would you rather die, or be unwound? Now he finally knows the answer. Maybe this is what he wanted. Maybe it's why he stood there and taunted Roland. Because he'd rather be killed with a furious hand than dismembered with cool indifference.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

Neal Shusterman Quotes about people

“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?”

Neal Shusterman

“Adulthood can do the most horrific things to the best of people.”

Neal Shusterman book Everwild

Source: Everwild

“Most people have two emergency modes. Fight and Flight. But Conner always knew he had three. Fight, Flight, and Screw Up Royally.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

“In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

“The sad truth about humanity… is that people believe what they're told. Maybe not the first time, but by the hundredth time, the craziest of ideas just becomes a given.”

Neal Shusterman

Source: UnWholly

“In a population of hundreds of millions, such a small number of people is a mere drop in the bucket… but enough drops can make any bucket overflow”

Neal Shusterman

Source: UnDivided

Neal Shusterman Quotes about the world

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

Neal Shusterman

Source: Challenger Deep

“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.”

Neal Shusterman

“Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.”

Neal Shusterman

Source: UnWholly

“Forget solar energy—if you could harness denial, it would power the world for generations.”

Neal Shusterman

Source: Challenger Deep

“In this world, there is a fine line between enlightenment and brain damage.”

Neal Shusterman

Source: Antsy Does Time

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“Sure, when you're in the midst of your own suffering, it's easy to convince yourself that you're no good—but we are all tested in this life… The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.”

Neal Shusterman

Source: UnWholly

“Either things happen for a reason, or they happen for no reason at all. Either one's life is a thread in a glorious tapestry or humanity is just a hopelessly tangled knot.”

Neal Shusterman

Source: UnWholly

Neal Shusterman Quotes

“Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

“… One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Variant: One thing yo learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.
Source: Unwind

“You see, a conflict always begins with an issue - a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a war, the issue doesn't matter anymore, because now it's about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

“You can't change laws without first changing human nature.'
-Nurse Greta

You can't change human nature without first changing the law.'
-Nurse Yvonne”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

“It's funny how a flame can only burn your hand if you move too slow, you can tease it all you want and it never gets you, if your quick enough.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

“I'm scared," he says.
"I know," says the nurse.
"I want you all to go to Hell."
"That's natural.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

“Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

“Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Variant: Do I look feeble to you"
"Actually, yes."
"Well, looks can be deceiving. For instance, when I met you, I thought you look reasonably intelligent.
Source: Unwind

“Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

“That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

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

Neal Shusterman

Source: UnWholly

“What he's really saying is: Please be a human being. With a life so full of rules and regiments, it's so easy to forget that's what they are. She knows—she sees—how often compassion takes a back seat to expediency.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

“Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.”

Neal Shusterman

Source: UnSouled

“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.”

Neal Shusterman

Source: Bruiser

“… the first sign of civilization is always trash.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

“I gotta go to the bathroom," Emby mumbles.
"You should have thought of that before you left," says Hayden, putting on his best mother voice. "How many times do we have to tell you? Always use the potty before climbing into a shipping crate.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

“No true hero ever believes that they are one.”

Neal Shusterman

Source: UnSouled

“Anger is only our friend when we know its caliber and how to aim it.”

Neal Shusterman

Source: UnWholly

“Hey," says Hayden, "I'm Switzerland; neutral as can be, and also with great chocolate."
"Get lost," Roland tells him.
"Already am." And Hayden strolls away.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

“The good thing about being explosive is that no one can beat you.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

“The woman wears a floral print blouse with lots of leaves and pink flowers. Risa would like to attack her with a weed whacker.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

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

Neal Shusterman

Source: UnWholly

“You never realize the holes a person leaves behind until you fall into them.”

Neal Shusterman book The Dark Side of Nowhere

Source: The Dark Side of Nowhere

“Which is worse, Risa often wondered, to have tens of thousands of babies that no one wanted or to silently make then go away before they were even born”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

“How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various shades of wrong?”

Neal Shusterman

Source: Bruiser

“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.”

Neal Shusterman

Source: UnWholly

“Cowards hide […] but warriors lie and wait […] the only difference is whether you're motivated by fear or purpose.”

Neal Shusterman

Source: UnSouled

“One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.”

Neal Shusterman

Source: UnSouled

“There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things.”

Neal Shusterman

Source: UnWholly

“Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.”

Neal Shusterman book Everfound

Source: Everfound

“Heaven might shine bright, but so do flames.”

Neal Shusterman book Everwild

Source: Everwild

“And he thinks that if his soul had a form, this is what it would be. A baby sleeping in his arms.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

“Connor smiles with mocking warmth at him, and glances at the tattoo on his wrist. "I like your dolphin.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

“It's amazing that something as simple as a kiss can overpower the worst of worries.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

“I'm Switzerland; neutral as can be, and also with great chocolate.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

“Would you rather die, or be unwound?”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

“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.”

Neal Shusterman

Source: Bruiser

“… 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.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

“It holds no fear for her now, because the shark has been tamed by the soul of a boy. No--the soul of a man.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

“Monster only had the power that you gave them”

Neal Shusterman book Everlost

Source: Everlost

“Whether consciousness is implanted in us by something divine, or whether it is created by the efforts of our brains, the end result is the same. We are.”

Neal Shusterman

Source: UnWholly

“When you live a life without questions, you're unprepared for the questions when they come.”

Neal Shusterman

Source: UnWholly

“Your hair looks funny," Lief said, as soon as the Ugloids left. "It stands straight up!"
No," said Nick, intensely irritated, "It's hanging straight down."
Lief just gave him an upside-down shrug. "Up is down in China and you're part-Chinese.”

Neal Shusterman book Everlost

Source: Everlost

“Who says I'm insane?""

""Oh you're sane alright.
You're so sane, you scare me.
You're so sane, it's insane.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Unwind

“Tools are neither demonic nor divine. It’s all about who wields them.”

Neal Shusterman

Source: UnDivided

“She plays music to heal herself, but nothing can heal her brokenness.”

Neal Shusterman

Source: UnWholly

“Walls don't fall without effort.”

Neal Shusterman

Source: Bruiser

“I used to be afraid of dying. Now I’m afraid of not living. There’s a difference. We go through life planning for a future, but sometimes that future never comes.”

Neal Shusterman

Source: Challenger Deep

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