Neal Shusterman: Doing

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

“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?”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“So," says Lev, as casually as he can, "you wanna dance?" "Do you believe in the end of the world?" she responds. Lev shrugs. "I don't know. Why?" "Because the day after that is when I'll dance with you.”

“Lord, if what I'm doing is wrong, then by all means strike me down. Otherwise set me free.”

“How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?"
"They do it all the time," says Hayden. "That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.”