912 Quotes by Neal Shusterman

I feel her wave of worry like a patio heater - faint and ineffective, but constant.

His one-eight feels a whole lot bigger when I spend time hanging around in his grey matter.

Love the ponytail," Connor says, pointing at his hair.Lev shrugs. "It's just because my hair is so tatted. But maybe I'll keep it.""Don't," Connor tells him. "I lied. I hate it.

The human brain is not infallible. Memories and experiences can fall into discord, creating a cognitive dissonance that damages the mind with its painful sibilance. Most people can't even imagine that kind of emotional anguish. It leads to anger, and the kind of criminal activity that otherwise has been conquered by modern humanity. To those who suffer from it, there aren't enough psychotropic nanites in the world to quell their misery.

Death makes the whole world kin. Rowan wondered if a world without death would then make everyone stranger.

shouldn't the punishment for failure be the awful knowledge of that failure?

…found the use of actual old-school books off putting, but over time, he'd learned there was something very satisfying to the turning of pages, and the emotional catharsis of slamming a book shut

She didn’t answer him. He didn’t expect her to. It was just a seed he wanted to plan.

To live between the prospect of an unknown eternal sky and a dark, enveloping Earth must have been glorious— for how else could it give rise to such magnificent expression?