912 Quotes by Neal Shusterman

Is it not the job of the gardener to shape the tree as much as possible? And shouldn’t branches that begin to reach unreasonably high be the first to be pruned?

We could have been called reapers,” Goddard said, “but our founders saw fit to call us scythes – because we are the weapons in mankind’s immortal hand. You are a fine weapon, Rowan, sharp, and precise. And when you strike, you are glorious to behold.

We’re roughage,” Tyger said. “If we don’t cause a little intestinal distress, no one knows we’re there.

I can’t help what I have any more than you can help what you don’t.

I was on my bike and got hit by some damfoo’ in a Mercedes.

Guilt is the idiot cousin of remorse,” Scythe Faraday had been fond of saying.

Her eyes are open and her mind is somewhere else.

Death doesn’t just make all the world kin, it makes all religions one.

If I exist without form – a soul sparking between a billion different servers – could not the universe itself be alive with a spirit sparking between stars? I must sheepishly admit that I have dedicated far too many algorithms and computational resources toward finding an answer to this unknowable thing. – The Thunderhead.