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Neal Shusterman
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 12
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Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.
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There's a quickening of her heart when she sees him. She tells herself it's anger.
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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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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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Death doesn't just make all the world kin, it makes all religions one
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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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Leadership is about keeping toilets flushing, the Admiral once said. Unless you're on the battlefront. Then it's about staying alive. Neither are pleasant.
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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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The scariest thing of all is never knowing what you're suddenly going to believe.
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So, says Lev, as casually as he can, you wanna dance? Do you believe in the end of the world? she responds. Lev shrugs. I don't know. Why? Because the day after that is when I'll dance with you.
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What? Were you born stupid, or did you just die that way?
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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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We weren't going anywhere, Nick said with a smile. He was trying to sound charming, but instead wound up sounding heavily sedated.
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You see, a conflict always begins with an issue - a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a war, the issue doesn't matter anymore, because now it's about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other.
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[...] every time he forces himself to think before acting, it's her voice in his head telling him to slow down. He wants to tell her, but she's always so busy in the medical jet—and you don't just go to somebody and say, I'm a better person because you're in my head.
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...New Beginning to the same old story
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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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...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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Perhaps, thought Talon, there was a path in between. A way to shed their ignorance without losing their souls.
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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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