Neal Shusterman: Trending quotes (page 2)

“Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.”

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

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

“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.”

“Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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”

“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?”