912 Quotes by Neal Shusterman

I don’t buy that what-comes-can’t-be-avoided garbage. Anything can be avoided if you try hard enough.

They sounded like those awful people on info-holograms. “It dices, it slices! But wait! There’s more!

I have to realize that there are only two perfect acts. They are the two most important acts known to me, but I forbid myself to perform them, and leave them in the hands of humankind. They are the creation of life... and life’s taking.

When he took her in his arms, it suddenly didn’t seem to matter what was going on outside of their tiny, sealed universe. In these terminal minutes of their current lives, it was just the two of them finally, finally giving in to their ultimate act of completion. The binary at last becoming the one.

You have three hundred sixty-five days of immunity.” And then, looking him in the eye, said, “And I’ll be seeing you on day three hundred sixty-six.

I conclude it would be a good place to be alone with my thoughts, but I should already know that my thoughts are never alone.

People can be monsters. Whether it’s just their actions, or whether it’s who they really are, it doesn’t matter. The result is the same.

Being made to suffer pain frees us to feel the joy of being human.

Wasn’t it Jacqui who told us the human body is sity percent water? Well, now I know what the rest is. The rest is dust, the rest is ash, it’s sorrow and it’s grief... But above all that, in spite of all that, binding us together... is hope. And joy. And a wellspring of all the things that still might be.