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Neal Shusterman
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 12
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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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Walls don't fall without effort.
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One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.
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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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Looks are deceiving, Risa says. After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent.
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When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things.
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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.
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Good in Crisis Sucks at Normal.’ That about sums up my whole life, doesn’t it?
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I gotta go to the bathroom, Emby mumbles. You should have thought of that before you left, says Hayden, putting on his best mother voice. How many times do we have to tell you? Always use the potty before climbing into a shipping crate.
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Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.
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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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Monster only had the power that you gave them
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For standing between Cody and his pain is my obligation, and standing between my uncle and his pain is my rent, but the pain I coax from Bronte is my joy
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She smiles at them as they go by and continues to play, making it clear that this furnace of a place, full of planes that cannot fly, is more than it seems. It is a womb of redemption for every Unwind, and fora ll those who fought the Heartland War and lost - which was everybody.
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It's called loitering, which is like littering with human beings as the trash.
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And he thinks that if his soul had a form, this is what it would be. A baby sleeping in his arms.
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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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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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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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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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