912 Quotes by Neal Shusterman

It is human nature to take the most magical of worlds for granted, turning each one into a blank canvas upon which to paint the lives of those who would live there. Only an outsider can see a world’s wonders for what they truly are.

You always have a choice,” he said, which was a half-truth if ever there was one.

Do you know that if you take the books in an average school library and stretched out all those words into a single line, the line would go all the way around the world? Actually, I made that up, but doesn’t it sound like it should be true?

Are people really such sheep that they can be fooled?

People prophesized doom at the hands of a soulless machine. But apparently the machine had a purer soul than any human. It watched the world from millions of eyes, listened from millions of ears. I either acted, or chose not to act on, the countless things it perceived.

The result leaves my brain somewhere in orbit beyond Saturn, where it can’t bother anyone, especially me.

What was friendship if it isn’t some kind of love?

Hope in the shadow of fear is the world’s most powerful motivator.

Tools are neither demonic nor divine. It’s all about who wields them.