Top 500 Neal Shusterman Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “Lord, if what I’m doing is wrong, then by all means strike me down. Otherwise set me free.”

— Neal Shusterman

452. “Today he failed to change the world. As for tomorrow, who can tell?”

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453. “Love, Allie concluded, wasn’t blind, it simply saw alternate dimensions.”

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454. “The result leaves my brain somewhere in orbit beyond Saturn, where it can’t bother anyone, especially me.”

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455. “The best we can hope for is to be humble in our arrogance.”

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456. “Tyger might have thought of himself as a free spirit, but he wasn’t at all. He just defined the dimensions of his own cage.”

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457. “I feel as if my entire life depends on my holding it together.”

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458. “And, like the Thunderhead, we love humanity. But we know not to coddle it. Humanity must accept the consequences of its own actions. We cannot – should not – protect it from itself.”

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459. “What happened to you was a crime. I can’t change that. What I can do is teach you to live with dignity.”

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460. “We weren’t going anywhere,” Nick said with a smile. He was trying to sound charming, but instead wound up sounding heavily sedated.”

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461. “The two of them playact with each other, pretending to be cordial, but only so it will make the final betrayal even sweeter.”

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462. “And everyone else was selecting their leaders not by their ability to lead, but by where they stood on a single issue.”

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463. “In fact, in the grand scheme of things, everyone was equally useless.”

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464. “People prophesized doom at the hands of a soulless machine. But apparently the machine had a purer soul than any human. It watched the world from millions of eyes, listened from millions of ears. I either acted, or chose not to act on, the countless things it perceived.”

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465. “I conclude it would be a good place to be alone with my thoughts, but I should already know that my thoughts are never alone.”

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466. “So we make decisions and base our lives on those decisions, never realizing we’re only seeing one-tenth of the whole. Then we cling to our narrow conclusions like our lives depend on it.”

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467. “We’re roughage,” Tyger said. “If we don’t cause a little intestinal distress, no one knows we’re there.”

— Neal Shusterman

468. “I don’t want to be empty on the inside.”

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469. “The harder you scrutinize randomness,” Faraday declared, “the more coincidence seems like a design.”

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470. “Revelations are never convenient, and always annoying.”

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471. “Eventually your body will learn the alliances it has to make with itself,′ Kenny had said – as if Cam was a factory full of strike-prone workers, or worse, a clutch of slaves forced into unwanted labor.”

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472. “Can I believe in that God too?”

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473. “Who he was and who he will be are connected only by the fine, nearly invisible thread of who he is now.”

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474. “I must be doing something right if the crazies think I’m as powerful as the Antichrist.”

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475. “She has no way of knowing that what occurred in his crate was a reenactment of what happened in her own, and in almost every other container on the plane. Fear, misgivings, questions rarely asked, and stories rarely told. The details are different, of course, as are the players, but the gist is the same. No one will discuss these things again, or even acknowledge having ever discussed them at all, but because of it, invisible bonds have been forged.”

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476. “It wasn’t just that he didn’t see the big picture, sometimes he saw a different picture entirely.”

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477. “Makes sense, the earth is quick to consume the flesh of things that ain’t natural.”

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478. “Respect doesn’t come without a little resentment.”

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479. “Morrison kept looking to everyone else, probably hoping someone would provide him with an opinion, because he wasn’t ready to have one of his own.”

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480. “We all need a moratorium on misery now and then.”

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481. “I don’t think God have us this anymore than he gives little kids cancer or makes poor people lottery winners... if anything, he gives us courage to deal.”

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482. “Rumors are like rain through an old roof. The effort of finding the source is greater than the cost of a new roof.”

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483. “What does she fear in idleness?”

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484. “I’m just saying that if we stopped fighting for lost causes, where would we be?”

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485. “There are some things I don’t understand, and don’t think I ever will. I don’t understand how a person can give up so totally and completely that they dive right into the heart of a black hole... And I don’t understand how pride can be more important than love.”

— Neal Shusterman

486. “At last, he allows himself the wonderful luxury of hope.”

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487. “But birthdays are random... Defining one’s life by the day one was cut from an umbilical cord is completely arbitrary.”

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488. “I have no doubt that, one way or another, you’ll fill the empty spaces left behind.”

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489. “Hole... ” He grips Risa’s hand tighter. “Hole, Risa, hole... ” And she smiles “Yes, Connor,” she says. “You’re whole. You’re finally whole.”

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490. “Ezra the artist, who Possuelo saw fit to set free, took to painting a mural to fill one of the larger caverns. It tickled him that this could become a pilgrimage destination for future Tonists, if indeed there would be any future Tonists, and that his cave paintings might be endlessly analyzed by scholars of tomorrow. He introduced some odd elements just to confuse them. A dancing bear, a five-eyed boy, and an eleven-hour clock missing the number 4.”

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491. “Do not give in to the urge to extinguish oneself in the waters of the world, but instead be a light above those waters to help guide the way.”

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492. “He had to live long enough to forge a purpose greater than that.”

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493. “Sometimes prejudice can be slapped upside the head by tolerance.”

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494. “Mom removed all games that remotely suggest violence and death-but Cody’s doing a good job of making harmless cartoon characters suffer in fresh and inventive ways.”

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495. “Then she offers him a slim but sincere smile, and he reluctantly returns it. It doesn’t bridge the gap between them, but at least it marks the spot where the bridge might be built.”

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496. “Wasn’t that the greatest perk of a perfect world? That there were no limits to what a person could do or become?”

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497. “He has no choice but to believe, because losing the hope of having hope would be unimaginable.”

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498. “Even an acknowledgment from someone who hates him is better than having no one but strangers watch him perish.”

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499. “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.”

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500. “Does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can’t remember being well?”

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