Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about Neal Shusterman
Neal Shusterman Quotes
132 Sourced Quotes
Source
Report...
Teenage rebellion is for suburban schoolchildren. Get over it.
Neal Shusterman
Source
Report...
Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.
Neal Shusterman
Source
Report...
Milestone! This is a momentous occasion," he tells her cheerily. "It should be witnessed by a friend." She throws him an icy gaze, and he does a verbal back pedal. "Aaaand since no friends are present, I'll have to do.
Neal Shusterman
Source
Report...
I imagine the center of the Earth must be a crowded place by now, but perhaps it is the spirits of those of us residing there that keep the Earth alive and green.
Neal Shusterman
Source
Report...
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
Report...
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
Source
Report...
You don't like her, do you?" "Who, me? No, I love her dearly. Evil scheming bitches are my favorite kind of people." (Risa)
Neal Shusterman
Source
Report...
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.
Neal Shusterman
Source
Report...
It's amazing that something as simple as a kiss can overpower the worst of worries.
Neal Shusterman
Source
Report...
I don't know what happens to our consciousness when we're unwound," says Connor. "I don't even know when that consciousness starts. But I do know this." He pauses to make sure all of them are listening. "We have a right to our lives!" The kids go wild. "We have a right to choose what happens to our bodies!" The cheers reach fever pitch. "We deserve a world where both those things are possible— and it's our job to help make that world.
Neal Shusterman
Source
Report...
And perhaps you can sense, in some small twisting loop of your gut, the convergence of the wrong, of the right, and of the woefully misguided. If you do, then pay sharp attention to the moment you wake, and the moment you fall asleep...For maybe then you will know, without a shadow of a doubt, which is which.
Neal Shusterman
Source
Report...
You'll feel a tingling in your chest," says a surgeon. "It's nothing to worry about.
Neal Shusterman
Source
Report...
Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.
Neal Shusterman
Source
Report...
I mean, it's like we all get our raw materials from our families―but it's up to us whether we build bridges or bombs.
Neal Shusterman
Source
Report...
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
Report...
No," says Ariana. "It was a dream. Reality got in the way, that's all.
Neal Shusterman
Source
Report...
It comes with being sixteen," Mom said. "You teenagers, you go into a cocoon when you turn fifteen and don't come out for years." "So they become butterflies when they finally come out?" my little sister Christina asked. "No," Mom said. "They're still caterpillars, only now they're big fat caterpillars that smell.
Neal Shusterman
Source
Report...
Our conversation with the supermarket manager had been about as helpful as a New Jersey road sign, and if you've ever been there, you know the signs don't tell you the exit you're coming up to, they only point out the exits you've just missed.
Neal Shusterman
Source
Report...
I'm scared," he says."I know," says the nurse."I want you all to go to Hell.""That's natural.
Neal Shusterman
Source
Report...
Always been a goal-oriented girl. it was both her strength and her weakness. She had a drive to completion that always gets things done, but it also made her inflexible, and stubborn.
Neal Shusterman
Source
Report...
You know that feeling you get when your leg falls asleep? Well, I suddenly had that feeling in my spine. Like termites were chewing through the marrow in my backbone.
Neal Shusterman
Source
Report...
Then Jix locked eyes with him and said very calmly, "If you hit her, I will open my mouth wide enough to swallow you whole, force you through my bowels, then out my other end." Avalon scowled at him. "You can't do that." "Try me," Jix said. Avalon backed off, then angrily stormed away, and Jix winked at Jill. "One in five.
Neal Shusterman
Source
Report...
I have no idea,' he tells her, and there is such a spark in his eye when he says it, she can tell having no idea is exactly the way he wants it.
Neal Shusterman
Source
Report...
She smiles at them as they go by and continues to play, making it clear that this furnace of a place, full of planes that cannot fly, is more than it seems. It is a womb of redemption for every Unwind, and fora ll those who fought the Heartland War and lost - which was everybody.
Neal Shusterman
Source
Report...
Perhaps, thought Talon, there was a path in between. A way to shed their ignorance without losing their souls.
Neal Shusterman
1
2
3
4
5
6
Quote of the day
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
Ogden Nash
Neal Shusterman
Creative Commons
Born:
November 12, 1962
(age 61)
Bio:
Neal Shusterman is an American writer of young-adult fiction. He won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature for Challenger Deep.
Known for:
Unwind (2007)
Everlost (2007)
UnWholly (2012)
Everwild (2009)
Challenger Deep (2015)
Most used words:
people
connor
life
time
wrong
moment
kids
hayden
soul
problem
matter
roland
tells
sane
risa
Neal Shusterman on Wikipedia
Neal Shusterman on Twitter
Suggest an edit or a new quote
Neal Shusterman Quotes
Neal Shusterman Short Quotes
American Novelist Quotes
Novelist Quotes
20th-century Novelist Quotes
Related People
Rick Riordan
American Novelist
Chris Carter
American Film producer
Kenneth Oppel
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes