Quote

I'll never understand how a man can live his life With his finger on the self-destruct button, Holding it there day after day, Blinded by an obsession to press it But lacking the conviction to do even that.

Neal Shusterman

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Neal Shusterman
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 12
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Even
Holding
Never
Presses
Destruct
Men
Press
Blinded
Life
Conviction
Button
Fingers
Buttons
Understand
Finger
Live
Lacking
Self
Obsession

More quotes by Neal Shusterman

Image
Lord, if what I'm doing is wrong, then by all means strike me down. Otherwise set me free.
Neal Shusterman
Image
Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.
Neal Shusterman
Image
The Bill of Life was signed, the Unwind Accord went into effect, and the war was over. Everyone was so happy to end the war, no one cared about the consequences
Neal Shusterman
Image
I'm scared, he says.I know, says the nurse.I want you all to go to Hell.That's natural.
Neal Shusterman
Image
History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.
Neal Shusterman
Image
... always been a goal-oriented girl. it was both her strength and her weakness. She had a drive to completion that always gets things done, but it also made her inflexible, and stubborn.
Neal Shusterman
Image
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.
Neal Shusterman
Image
Looks are deceiving, Risa says. After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent.
Neal Shusterman
Image
The thing was, if I had found a way to escape- even for just a little while- I knew the pain would be there waiting for me when I got back.
Neal Shusterman
Image
...One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.
Neal Shusterman
Image
...New Beginning to the same old story
Neal Shusterman
Image
Words don't hurt you. Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.
Neal Shusterman
Image
How much do you know about the Heartland War?' Connor shrugs. 'It was the last chapter in our history textbook, but we had state testing, so we never got to it.
Neal Shusterman
Image
Respect doesn't come without a little resentment.
Neal Shusterman
Image
He's become like that briefcase in the ground-full of gems yet void of light, so nothing sparkles, nothing shines.
Neal Shusterman
Image
They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves.
Neal Shusterman
Image
I was asking if unwinding kills you, or if it leaves you alive somehow. C'mon—it's not like we haven't thought about it. (...) What do you think, Connor? asks Hayden. What hap­pens to your soul when you get unwound? Who says I even got one? For the sake of argument, let's say you do. Who says I want an argument?
Neal Shusterman
Image
You see, a conflict always begins with an issue - a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a war, the issue doesn't matter anymore, because now it's about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other.
Neal Shusterman
Image
This book is so interesting. I always wonder what's going to happen next.
Neal Shusterman
Image
Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.
Neal Shusterman