912 Quotes by Neal Shusterman

Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem.

Such a delicate charge as pruning the human race should not be subject to the quirks of personality.

Tomorrow is going to have to take care of itself for a while,” Alyssa says. Then she adds, “Yesterday, too.

Nothing stays wondrous forever. It’s human nature to grow accustomed to that which becomes normal, even if it’s a new shade of normal.

So much of my life had been under tight control. So much of Quinn’s life had been wild insanity. What we needed now was both: a directed burst of controlled insanity.

Luck, however, is too dumb to remain consistent.

The longer we live, the quicker the days seem to pass. How troublesome that is when we live forever. A year seems to pass in a matter of weeks. Decades fly with no milestones to mark them. We become settled in the inconsequential drudgery of our own lives, until suddenly we look at ourselves in the mirror and see a face we barely recognize begging us to turn a corner and be young again.

And everyone else was selecting their leaders not by their ability to lead, but by where they stood on a single issue.

Ain’t no one gonna tell you what’s in your heart,” he tells Lev. “You gotta find that out for yourself.