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We want what you no longer want.
Neal Shusterman
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Neal Shusterman
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 12
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The homes here are almost identical, but not quite, full of people almost identical, but not quite.
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That's wisdom you can take to the grave, and dig up when you need it!
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Sure, when you're in the midst of your own suffering, it's easy to convince yourself that you're no good—but we are all tested in this life...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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Normally Connor would walk away from a conversation like this. His life is about tangibles: things you can see, hear and touch. God, souls, and all that has always been like a secret in a black box he couldn't see into, so it was easier just to leave it alone. Only now, he's inside the black box.
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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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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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Conner Lassiter. Scheduled to be unwound the 21st of November-until you went AWOL. You caused an accident that killed a bus driver, left dozens of others injured, and shut down an interstate highway for hours. Then, on top of it, you took a hostage AND shot a Juvey-cop with his own tranq gun. ...He's the Akron AWOL?!
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If you have to ask then you don't deserve an answer.
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Would you rather die, or be unwound?
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I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray.
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It's a big question. Where do you begin to change the world?
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Teenage rebellion is for suburban schoolchildren. Get over it.
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Great tragedies have great consequences. They ripple through the fabric of this world and the next. When the loss is too great for either world to bear, Everlost absorbs the shock, like a cushion between the two.
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Cowards hide [...] but warriors lie and wait [...] the only difference is whether you're motivated by fear or purpose.
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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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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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Tranq'd by your own gun,Lev says.How pathetic.
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We can lie to ourselves, saying we believe one thing, and sometimes we convince other's it's true, with the hope that by convincing others, we can convince ourselves. Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.
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...the first sign of civilization is always trash.
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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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