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Unwind

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Neal Shusterman

Unwind is a 2007 science fiction novel by young adult literature author Neal Shusterman. It takes place in the United States in the near future. After the Second Civil War was fought over abortion, a compromise was reached, allowing parents to sign an order for their children between the ages of 13 and 18 to be "unwound" — taken to "harvest camps" and dissected into their body parts for later use. The reasoning is that, since 99.44% of the body is used, unwinds do not technically die because their individual body parts live on.

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

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“Who says I'm insane?""

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

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“Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.”

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“Beautiful is dangerous.”

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“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.”

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

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“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.”

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

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“What can fingerprints mean when they’re not necessarily yours?”

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“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.”

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

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

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

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“… 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.”

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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.
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“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.”

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

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

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“… 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.”

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“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”

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