912 Quotes by Neal Shusterman

Dans la vie, on voit ce qui peut être accompli, on pèse le pour et le contre et ensuite on saisit l’opportunité. — Henry

You were not given permission to have talent,” the captain tells me.

As a kid you idolize your parents. You think they're perfect, because they're the yardstick by which you measure the rest of the world, and yourself. Then as a teenager they just piss you off, because you realize that not only are they not perfect, but they may be even a little more screwed up than you. But there's that moment when you realize they're not superheroes, or villains. They're painfully, unforgivably human. The question is, can you forgive them for being human anyway?

Walls don't fall without effort.

How do you fill it?’ Connor asks. 'How do you fill the … the space?’And to Cam’s own amazement, he has an answer. 'Bit by bit,’ he says, 'and not alone.

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.

Respect doesn't come without a little resentment.

Sometimes justice needs obstructing when it ain't just.

There was a lesson to be learned in every gleaning, and today's was one she would not soon forget. The sanctity of the law...and the wisdom to know when it must be broken.