912 Quotes by Neal Shusterman

They all think medicine should be magic, and they become mad at me when it's not.

The question is, will poisoning the voices kill them, or just make them really, really pissed off?

There’s this thing in my head that I have to purge onto the page before it changes the shape of my brain.

Please stay broken, Callie,” I pray. “Please stay broken as long as I am.

You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees bottomless pit in yours.

And you know the darkness beyond despair, just as intimately as you know the soaring heights. Because in this and all universes, there is balance. You can't have the one without facing the other. And sometimes you think you can take it because the joy is worth the despair, and sometimes you know you can't take it and how did you ever think you could? And there is the dance; strength and weakness, confidence and desolation.

I suppose even a simple slogan can be twisted into whatever shape we want, like a balloon animal—we can even make it loop back around on itself, becoming a noose. In the end, the measure of who we are can be seen in the shapes of our balloon animals.

It's kind of like religion. It gives us comfort to believe we have defined something that is, by its very nature, indefinable. As to whether or not we've gotten it right, well, it's all a matter of faith.

Everything feels right with the world......and the sad thing is that I know it's a dream. I know it must soon end, and when it does I will be thrust awake into a place where either I'm broken, or the world is broken.