Top 500 Neal Shusterman Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “The mall was a mecca for a newborn street rat.”

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

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353. “If I exist without form – a soul sparking between a billion different servers – could not the universe itself be alive with a spirit sparking between stars? I must sheepishly admit that I have dedicated far too many algorithms and computational resources toward finding an answer to this unknowable thing. – The Thunderhead.”

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354. “Statistically speaking, there’s a better chance that some part of me will go on to greatness somewhere in the world. I’d rather be partly great than entirely useless.”

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

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356. “I shouldn’t be here,” I appeal to the captain, wondering if I’ve told him this before. “I have midterms and papers due and dirty clothes I never picked up from my bedroom floor, and I have friends, lots of friends.”

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

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358. “They conformed so closely to their culture of nonconformity that there was a uniformity to them, defeating the whole purpose.”

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359. “One thing yo learn when you’ve lived as long as I have-people aren’t all good, and people aren’t all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I’m pleased to be in the light.”

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360. “Best way to save humanity is to turn the monsters against one another.”

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361. “That which we name takes greater weight than the sea it displaces. Ask any shipwreck.”

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

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

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364. “I’m sure my parents must be proud. Or horrified. Or are bitterly arguing about whether they’re proud or horrified, and have already hired lawyers to resolve the dispute. -Hayden Upchurch.”

— Neal Shusterman

365. “I feel everything,” Calliope tells me as I rest in her metallic arms one night, suspended above an easy sea. “I feel not only the sails, but the hull. Not only the ship, but the sea. Not only the sea, but the sky. And not only the sky, but the stars. I feel everything.”

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366. “All his life there was only one thing Lec was allowed to believe. It had surrounded him, cocooned him, constricted him with the same stifling softness as the layers of insulation around him now. For the first time in his life, Lev feels those bounds around his soul begin to loosen.”

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367. “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.”

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

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

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

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371. “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.”

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

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373. “What’s the point of living forever if you can’t take a few risks?”

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374. “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.”

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

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376. “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.”

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

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

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379. “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.”

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380. “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.”

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

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

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

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384. “There’s a very old expression,” Scythe Goddard told him. “’To be painless is to be gainless.”

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385. “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.”

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

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388. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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393. “We make mistakes. Believe me, if Goddard is installed as High Blade, half of the scythes who put him there will regret it in the morning, but by then it will be too late!”

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394. “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.”

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

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396. “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.”

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397. “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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398. “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.”

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399. “There’s a quickening of her heart when she sees him. She tells herself it’s anger.”

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

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