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That's wisdom you can take to the grave, and dig up when you need it!

Neal Shusterman

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Neal Shusterman
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 12
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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.
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It's funny how a flame can only burn your hand if you move too slow, you can tease it all you want and it never gets you, if your quick enough.
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It comes with being sixteen, Mom said. You teenagers, you go into a cocoon when you turn fifteen and don't come out for years. So they become butterflies when they finally come out? my little sister Christina asked. No, Mom said. They're still caterpillars, only now they're big fat caterpillars that smell.
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Already Roland feels his limbs starting to go numb. He swallows hard. I hate this. I hate you. I hate all of you. I understand.
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Fine, Connor tells him. Think about stuff until your head explodes. But the only thing I want to think about is surviving to eighteen. I find your shallowness both refreshing and disappointing at the same time. Do you think that means I need therapy?
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...the first sign of civilization is always trash.
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I have no idea,' he tells her, and there is such a spark in his eye when he says it, she can tell having no idea is exactly the way he wants it.
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Monster only had the power that you gave them
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Who am I? The sum of your dreams, the thrill you refuse to grasp, the unknown you fear.
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One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.
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...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.
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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?
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You may feel a tugging sensation near your ankles.
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Why are you still with me, Fry? CyFi asks after one of his body-shaking seizures. Any sane dude woulda taken off days ago. Who says I'm sane? Oh, you're sane, Fry. You're so sane, you scare me. You're so sane, it's insane.
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Connor smiles with mocking warmth at him, and glances at the tattoo on his wrist. I like your dolphin.
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Looks are deceiving, Risa says. After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent.
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Love, Allie concluded, wasn't blind, it simply saw alternate dimensions.
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We want what you no longer want.
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The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.
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