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So much of my life had been under tight control. So much of Quinn's life had been wild insanity. What we needed now was both: a directed burst of controlled insanity.
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Fine," Connor tells him. "Think about stuff until your head explodes. But the only thing I want to think about is surviving to eighteen." I find your shallowness both refreshing and disappointing at the same time. Do you think that means I need therapy?
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He only wishes there were something that would heal the scars in his mind, which he can still feel. He sees his mind now as an archipelago of islands that he labors to build bridges between - and while he's had great success engineering the most spectacular of bridges, he suspects there are some islands that he'll never reach.
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Think of it this way," he said "It took nine months to get you born, so doesn't it figure it would take nine months to get you dead?
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I can't destroy things so beautiful." "Time will destroy them if you don't. Time destroys everything. But if you destroy them, it will mean something.
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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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Mooooon! said the Ogre. Tranquility … Then he pointed at the full moon. Neil Armstrong walked in a sea of Tranquility. Then he added, It's made of cheese. But you have to take off the plastic before you put it on a burger. Mickey sighed. What's his story? the wraith asked. He's chocolate, Mikey said.
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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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He does not deserve this. He has done many things, not all good, but he does not deserve this. And he never did get his priest.
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Leadership is about keeping toilets flushing," the Admiral once said. "Unless you're on the battlefront. Then it's about staying alive. Neither are pleasant.
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I was asking if unwinding kills you, or if it leaves you alive somehow. C'mon—it's not like we haven't thought about it." (...) What do you think, Connor?" asks Hayden. "What happens to your soul when you get unwound?" Who says I even got one?" For the sake of argument, let's say you do." Who says I want an argument?
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Crawley reached into the pocket of his fancy robe - a dinner jacket, I think it's called. The kind of thing Professer Plum would wear before killing Colonel Mustard in the ballroom with the candlestick.
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In the backseat Moose and Squirrel inhabited a pair of six-year-old-twins, and wouldn't stop bickering and picking their noses. They were clearly in their element.
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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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They meet in the girls' bathroom. The last time they were forced to meet in a place like this, they took separate, isolated stalls. Now they share one. They hold each other in the tight space, making no excuses for it. There's no time left in their lives for games, or for awkwardness, or for pretending they don't care about each others, and so they kiss as if they've done it forever. As if it is as crucial as the need for oxygen.
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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?
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The rides are different for everyone. I'm convinced of that now. I mean, sure, there are some we ride together. Either we find ourselves drawn to some common experience, or maybe we're pulled in by the people we care about. Our friends, our families can drag us onto coasters and Tilt-A-Whirls that are really meant for them. But in the end, no matter whose rides we find ourselves on, the experience is all our own.
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The Statue of Liberty's got this invitation: 'Give me your tired, your poor, your reeking homeless—' 'Huddled masses,' said Ira. 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.'... Okay, fine. So like everybody in the old countries says, 'Hey, I'm a huddled mass,' and they all wanna come over.
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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.
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My grandmother used to say that twisting paths always cross again," he told her. "And whose paths are more twisted than ours?
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I know this is your hand now,' she tells him. "Roland would have never touched me like that." Connor smiles, and Risa takes a moment to look down at the shark on his wrist. 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.
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Incredible. It never ceases to amaze Starkey how far society will go to protect the children it loves and to discard the ones it doesn't.
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Getting to know someone in blind darkness changes your impression of them.
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This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.
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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)
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