912 Quotes by Neal Shusterman

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.

But there’s a road to hell for every good intention.

We’ll never be ready. So I guess that means we’re as ready as we’ll ever be.

There are many ways in which the “check brain” light illuminates, but here’s the screwed-up part: the driver can’t see it. It’s like the light is positioned in the backseat cup holder, beneath an empty can of soda that’s been there for a month. No one sees it but the passengers – and only if they’re really looking for it, or when the light gets so bright and so hot that it melts the can, and sets the whole car on fire.

I’ll never understand how a man can live his life With his finger on the self-destruct button, Holding it there day after day, Blinded by an obsession to press it But lacking the conviction to do even that.

There was no lane line, no net, nothin to keep them apart but the well of her will. But that kept losing bricks.

We weren’t going anywhere,” Nick said with a smile. He was trying to sound charming, but instead wound up sounding heavily sedated.

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?

They meet in the girls’ bathroom. The last time they were forced to meet in a place like this, they took separate, isolated stalls. Now they share one. They hold each other in the tight space, making no excuses for it. There’s no time left in their lives for games, or for awkwardness, or for pretending they don’t care about each others, and so they kiss as if they’ve done it forever. As if it is as crucial as the need for oxygen.