Quote

Getting to know someone in blind darkness changes your impression of them.

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
Impression
Changes
Blind
Darkness
Getting
Someone

More quotes by Neal Shusterman

Image
Suddenly it was obvious to Connor why they don't teach it. Once education was restructured and corporatized, they didn't want kids knowing how close they came to toppling the government. They didn't want kids to know how much power they really had.
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
There are mysteries in Everlost. Some of them are wonderful, and others scary. They should all be explored, though- perhaps that's why we're here: to experience the good and the bad that Everlost has to offer.
Neal Shusterman
Image
You may feel a tugging sensation near your ankles.
Neal Shusterman
Image
Death doesn't just make all the world kin, it makes all religions one
Neal Shusterman
Image
We weren't going anywhere, Nick said with a smile. He was trying to sound charming, but instead wound up sounding heavily sedated.
Neal Shusterman
Image
Perhaps, thought Talon, there was a path in between. A way to shed their ignorance without losing their souls.
Neal Shusterman
Image
Hey, says Hayden, I'm Switzerland neutral as can be, and also with great chocolate. Get lost, Roland tells him. Already am. And Hayden strolls away.
Neal Shusterman
Image
Then Jix locked eyes with him and said very calmly, If you hit her, I will open my mouth wide enough to swallow you whole, force you through my bowels, then out my other end. Avalon scowled at him. You can't do that. Try me, Jix said. Avalon backed off, then angrily stormed away, and Jix winked at Jill. One in five.
Neal Shusterman
Image
With hardly any effort at all, she made me feel special. Just like all the other people she toyed with.
Neal Shusterman
Image
And he thinks that if his soul had a form, this is what it would be. A baby sleeping in his arms.
Neal Shusterman
Image
Who am I? The sum of your dreams, the thrill you refuse to grasp, the unknown you fear.
Neal Shusterman
Image
I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.
Neal Shusterman
Image
You'll feel a tingling in your chest, says a surgeon. It's nothing to worry about.
Neal Shusterman
Image
Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.
Neal Shusterman
Image
Part of my job is to help other kids find books, because not everyone has a keenly organized mind. Some kids could wander the library for hours and still have no idea how to find anything. For them, the Dewey Decimal System might as well be advanced calculus.
Neal Shusterman
Image
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.
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 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
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