Top 500 Neal Shusterman Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “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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452. “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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453. “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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454. “We’re roughage,” Tyger said. “If we don’t cause a little intestinal distress, no one knows we’re there.”

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

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

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457. “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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458. “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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459. “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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460. “It is the nature of life to fear its own end. This is how I know that we are truly alive.”

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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. “People are vessels,” Jeri had said to her. “They hold whatever’s poured into them.”

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

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

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

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467. “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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468. “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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469. “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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470. “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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471. “Sometimes prejudice can be slapped upside the head by tolerance.”

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472. “Scythe Curie seemed a mix of many emotions, but she folded them all away, like clothes that no longer fit, and closed the drawer.”

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473. “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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474. “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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475. “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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476. “He has no choice but to believe, because losing the hope of having hope would be unimaginable.”

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477. “We leave justice to the universe. And what rings out always echos back.”

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

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479. “Can I believe in that God too?”

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

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

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483. “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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484. “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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485. “We all need a moratorium on misery now and then.”

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

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488. “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.”

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489. “What does she fear in idleness?”

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490. “Forse siamo come una moneta in bilico.”

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

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492. “Have you sufficiently boiled yourself, Your Excellency, or has the heat this year not been enough for you?”

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493. “Guilt is easy, innocence is hard.”

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494. “You’re not eating, Cam,” Roberta says as she comes out to join him across the table. Roberta – his creator, or builder – whatever term one gives to the individual who conceived of you. Perhaps, then, it should be “mother,” though he’s loath to use the word.”

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495. “I don’t buy that what-comes-can’t-be-avoided garbage. Anything can be avoided if you try hard enough.”

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496. “You must stop these reckless surrenders to your momentary moods.”

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497. “She supposed it must always be this way; once the unthinkable settles into being the norm you become numb to it. She never wanted to be that numb.”

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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. “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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500. “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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