912 Quotes by Neal Shusterman

A family is a collection of strangers trapped in a web of DNA and forced to cope.

When it comes to such open-heart reflection, I'm a firm believer in the observer effect, which states that anything you try to observe is automatically changed by the mere fact that you're looking at it. The way I see it, if you try to study your emotions on a microscopic level, the best you can do is understand how it feels to hold the magnifying glass.

It's strange how we always want other people to feel what we feel. It must be a basic human drive. Misery loves company, right? Or when you see a movie that you love, don't you want to drag all your friends to see it as well? Because it's only good the second time if it's the first time for somebody else—as if their experience somehow resonates inside of you.

How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various shades of wrong?

What do you do with a textbook case when no one's written the textbook?

If you say, ‘May The Fork Be With You,’ I’ll smash you with the other side of this hanger.

Ours is a perfect world – but perfection does not linger in one place. It is a firefly, by its very nature elusive and unpredictable.

I love you,” he said. “Same here,” she responded. “Now get lost.

I wish you could have felt that slap I wish you could feel the pain.