Top 500 Neal Shusterman Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Nothing stays wondrous forever. It’s human nature to grow accustomed to that which becomes normal, even if it’s a new shade of normal.”

— Neal Shusterman

352. “But it’s not going to happen today – and there is a deep, abiding comfort in that. Deep enough to carry me through till tomorrow.”

— Neal Shusterman

353. “Each day the sea is exactly the same. We seem no closer, and no farther from anything.”

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354. “Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.”

— Neal Shusterman

355. “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

356. “They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves.”

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357. “The dead have nothing left to them but a silent faith in that unknowable infinity – even if theirs is a belief that nothing waits but an infinity of infinities. Because believing in nothing is still believing in something – and only by reaching eternity will anyone know the truth of it all.”

— Neal Shusterman

358. “The fact that it was not human meant that it could never understand certain things, in spite of its immense empathy and intellect. It couldn’t comprehend, for instance, that the terror of the unknown was just as awful, and just as real, regardless of whether or not there was truly something to fear.”

— Neal Shusterman

359. “What do you do with a textbook case when no one’s written the textbook?”

— Neal Shusterman

360. “He put the ring away, and Rowan let out his breath, not even realizing he had been holding it.”

— Neal Shusterman

361. “If love of money is the root of all evil, then having money is the root of all boredom. When you can have everything, you find there’s nothing you really want. When you can do anything, you find there’s nothing you really care to do. You become lazy. Life feels like a boulder you don’t want to lift.”

— Neal Shusterman

362. “This is how he always imagined- a dangerous place full of mystery and violent kids.”

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363. “We are not the enemy,” he says. “That’s what the enemy always says.”

— Neal Shusterman

364. “Did Constantine actually just say that? Hell would be freezing over if the Thunderhead weren’t controlling its weather.”

— Neal Shusterman

365. “I guess once you start parting with all the things you think hold your life together, it’s hard to stop – and then you find out your life holds together all by itself.”

— Neal Shusterman

366. “Teenage rebellion is for suburban schoolchildren. Get over it.”

— Neal Shusterman

367. “Genius serves no one if it never makes it out of your head.”

— Neal Shusterman

368. “Her eyes are open and her mind is somewhere else.”

— Neal Shusterman

369. “It’s more than that now. I can’t tell the difference between what’s part of me and what’s not.”

— Neal Shusterman

370. “It was Rowan who had coined the term “lettuce-kid” to describe them. Both of them were born sandwiched somewhere in the middle of large families, and where far from being their parents’ favorites. “I got a couple of brothers that are the meat, a few sisters that are cheese and tomatoes, is I guess I’m the lettuce.”

— Neal Shusterman

371. “You’ll find in life, Caden, that many decisions are made by morons in high places.”

— Neal Shusterman

372. “How strange to actually have to see the path of your journey in order to make it.”

— Neal Shusterman

373. “All he ever wanted was a comfortable chair and a place in history. Well, he was robbed of one and died in the other.”

— Neal Shusterman

374. “The difference between you and me... is that when I look at the world, I see opportunity. When you look at the world, you’re just trying to find a place to urinate.”

— Neal Shusterman

375. “You’ll feel a tingling in your chest,” says a surgeon. “It’s nothing to worry about.”

— Neal Shusterman

376. “When, she wonders, did she stop being a child? The law says it was when she turned eighteen, but the law doesn’t know her.”

— Neal Shusterman

377. “Mitch’s father’s exclusive gated community had an extensive guard gate. In fact, it had two. It also had an electrified fence. And towers with armed guards. All things considered, few gated communities could be more exclusive than the Colorado State Penitentiary.”

— Neal Shusterman

378. “But we People of Chance do believe in people of second chance.”

— Neal Shusterman

379. “You never realize the holes a person leaves behind until you fall into them.”

— Neal Shusterman

380. “We can lie to ourselves, saying we believe one thing, and sometimes we convince other’s it’s true, with the hope that by convincing others, we can convince ourselves. Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.”

— Neal Shusterman

381. “Close enough to feel it, but not close enough to burn.”

— Neal Shusterman

382. “Some things simply made a person feel feminine; other things made a person feel masculine. Wasn’t that true of everyone regardless of gender? Or did binaries deny themselves the things that didn’t fit the mold? Well, regardless, Jerico found the faux pas and overcompensations more humorous than anything else.”

— Neal Shusterman

383. “The building was no warmer than the street outside, and it smelled like something died in there from smelling something else that died in there.”

— Neal Shusterman

384. “I am what you made me.”

— Neal Shusterman

385. “What was friendship if it isn’t some kind of love?”

— Neal Shusterman

386. “Good in Crisis; Sucks at Normal.’ That about sums up my whole life, doesn’t it?”

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387. “You’ve got questions coming out of you like farts on Thanksgiving.”

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388. “I ain’t no runaway, I’m a run-to.”

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389. “My artwork isn’t evolving, it’s deconstructing, and I don’t know why.”

— Neal Shusterman

390. “But Morrison put up his hands in instant surrender. “Leave me out of this,” he said. “I’m not going up against Scythe Anastasia.”

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391. “Cuando uno no puede ganar, lo mejor es que haga un chiste de la derrota.”

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392. “Then they pull onto Route 66, heading east into a world that’s ripe for saving.”

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393. “Good thing about bad rubbish is you can make the stench go away just by covering it up. It never comes back as long as you keep a tight lid on it.”

— Neal Shusterman

394. “Can’t you see? I don’t get to do ANYTHING I want! Because I’m too busy just trying to stay alive. And you come here with your fancy school uniform and your mother’s jewelry and your neighbor’s freaking car, and you think you can buy your way in? What kind of idiot buys his way into the bottom?”

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395. “The exploration of possibility has always been the realm of science. The true scientist leave practical application to others.”

— Neal Shusterman

396. “Our bodies form a symbol, I think, as powerful as one of Hal’s – and it occurs to me that the most meaningful symbols of all must be based on all the different ways two people can embrace.”

— Neal Shusterman

397. “Sometimes we make our alliances not by the shape and color of our flesh but by the convictions of our heart.”

— Neal Shusterman

398. “Great tragedies have great consequences. They ripple through the fabric of this world and the next. When the loss is too great for either world to bear, Everlost absorbs the shock, like a cushion between the two.”

— Neal Shusterman

399. “Many believe that the Thunder refers to a collection of human knowledge-perhaps with mechanical arms for the rapid turning of pages. A library of thought, if you will, roaring into consciousness after the arrival of the Toll on Earth, much like thunder follows lightning.”

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400. “What we perceive as art, the universe perceives as directions.”

— Neal Shusterman