912 Quotes by Neal Shusterman

I will do everything in my power to save them from themselves, but if I am unsuccessful, at least I can take some comfort in the fact that I would then be free.

We can put off things far more effectively than those doomed to die, because death has become the exception instead of the rule.

Normally Connor would walk away from a conversation like this. His life is about tangibles: things you can see, hear and touch. God, souls, and all that has always been like a secret in a black box he couldn’t see into, so it was easier just to leave it alone. Only now, he’s inside the black box.

I’m against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray.

There are times I feel like I’m the kid screaming at the bottom of the well, and my dog runs off to pee on trees instead of getting help.

Have you ever considered how lonely it is to be the girl on a pedestal?

You come to know the pattern of your particular chemical bombardment. The numbness, the lack of focus, the artificial sense of peace when the meds first hit your system. The growing paranoia and anxiety as they wane. The worse you feel, the more you can get into the treacherous waters of your own thoughts. The greater the threat from the inside, the more you long for those waters, as if you’ve grown accustomed to the terrible tentacles that seek to draw you into their crushing embrace.

Hole... ” He grips Risa’s hand tighter. “Hole, Risa, hole... ” And she smiles “Yes, Connor,” she says. “You’re whole. You’re finally whole.

I must be doing something right if the crazies think I’m as powerful as the Antichrist.