Quote

Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement.

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
Vector
Vectors
Movement
State
Happiness
States

More quotes by Neal Shusterman

Image
You have robbed me, and everyone here, of their purpose. That's not salvation, that's damnation.
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 can't change laws without first changing human nature.
Neal Shusterman
Image
Great tragedies have great consequences. They ripple through the fabric of this world and the next. When the loss is too great for either world to bear, Everlost absorbs the shock, like a cushion between the two.
Neal Shusterman
Image
You think you want to know the secrets of the universe. You think you want to see the way things all fit together. You believe in your heart of hearts that enlightenment will save the world and set you free. Maybe it will. But the path to enlightenment is rarely a pleasant one.
Neal Shusterman
Image
There's a quickening of her heart when she sees him. She tells herself it's anger.
Neal Shusterman
Image
The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.
Neal Shusterman
Image
And, added Mikey. she's my sister. The others looked at him for a moment, and broke out laughing. Yeah, yeah, Squirrel scoffed, and the McGill is my cousin. Now Allie burst out laughing, which made Mikey more annoyed. If the McGill was your cousin, Mikey said, I can guarantee he'd disown you.
Neal Shusterman
Image
When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things.
Neal Shusterman
Image
We move in and out of darkness and light all our lives. Right now I'm pleased to be in the light.
Neal Shusterman
Image
So is darkness better than a heartfelt lie?
Neal Shusterman
Image
I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.
Neal Shusterman
Image
The nation was tearing itself apart over pro-life and pro-choice but completely ignored the problems of the kids who were already here. I mean, no schools, no work, no clue if they'd even have a future. They just went nuts!
Neal Shusterman
Image
We can lie to ourselves, saying we believe one thing, and sometimes we convince other's it's true, with the hope that by convincing others, we can convince ourselves. Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.
Neal Shusterman
Image
does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?
Neal Shusterman
Image
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.
Neal Shusterman
Image
...New Beginning to the same old story
Neal Shusterman
Image
You may feel a tugging sensation near your ankles.
Neal Shusterman
Image
If you have to ask then you don't deserve an answer.
Neal Shusterman
Image
The homes here are almost identical, but not quite, full of people almost identical, but not quite.
Neal Shusterman