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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.
Neal Shusterman
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Neal Shusterman
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 12
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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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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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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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All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world.
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Getting to know someone in blind darkness changes your impression of them.
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He's become like that briefcase in the ground-full of gems yet void of light, so nothing sparkles, nothing shines.
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You have robbed me, and everyone here, of their purpose. That's not salvation, that's damnation.
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Would you rather die, or be unwound? Now he finally knows the answer. Maybe this is what he wanted. Maybe it's why he stood there and taunted Roland. Because he'd rather be killed with a furious hand than dismembered with cool indifference.
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This book is so interesting. I always wonder what's going to happen next.
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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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