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Neal Shusterman
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 12
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I gotta go to the bathroom, Emby mumbles. You should have thought of that before you left, says Hayden, putting on his best mother voice. How many times do we have to tell you? Always use the potty before climbing into a shipping crate.
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Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.
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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.
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With hardly any effort at all, she made me feel special. Just like all the other people she toyed with.
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He does not deserve this. He has done many things, not all good, but he does not deserve this. And he never did get his priest.
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Small victories are bet­ter than none.
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They signed the unwind order just to spite each other,but laugh,laugh,laugh,Hayden, because if you ever stop laughing,it might just tear you apart worse than a Chop Shop.
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He only wishes there were something that would heal the scars in his mind, which he can still feel. He sees his mind now as an archipelago of islands that he labors to build bridges between - and while he's had great success engineering the most spectacular of bridges, he suspects there are some islands that he'll never reach.
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You know that feeling you get when your leg falls asleep? Well, I suddenly had that feeling in my spine. Like termites were chewing through the marrow in my backbone.
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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.
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History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.
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What he's really saying is: Please be a human being. With a life so full of rules and regiments, it's so easy to forget that's what they are. She knows—she sees—how often compassion takes a back seat to expediency.
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Milestone! This is a momentous occasion, he tells her cheerily. It should be witnessed by a friend. She throws him an icy gaze, and he does a verbal back pedal. Aaaand since no friends are present, I'll have to do.
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Crawley reached into the pocket of his fancy robe - a dinner jacket, I think it's called. The kind of thing Professer Plum would wear before killing Colonel Mustard in the ballroom with the candlestick.
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I'm scared, he says.I know, says the nurse.I want you all to go to Hell.That's natural.
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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.
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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?
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The scariest thing of all is never knowing what you're suddenly going to believe.
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I know this is your hand now,' she tells him. Roland would have never touched me like that. Connor smiles, and Risa takes a moment to look down at the shark on his wrist. It holds no fear for her now, because the shark has been tamed by the soul of a boy. No- the soul of a man.
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Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.
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