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Neal Shusterman
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 12
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With hardly any effort at all, she made me feel special. Just like all the other people she toyed with.
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Words don't hurt you. Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.
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Adulthood can do the most horrific things to the best of people.
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The Bill of Life was signed, the Unwind Accord went into effect, and the war was over. Everyone was so happy to end the war, no one cared about the consequences
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Then she offers him a slim but sincere smile, and he reluctantly returns it. It doesn't bridge the gap between them, but at least it marks the spot where the bridge might be built.
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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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Revelations are never convenient, and always annoying.
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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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How do you judge the brightness of a light when you’re the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts.
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What? Were you born stupid, or did you just die that way?
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Monster only had the power that you gave them
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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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think of it this way, he said It took nine months to get you born, so doesn't it figure it would take nine months to get you dead?
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Love turns a heart to crystal...Much more valuable, but much more fragile.
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Small victories are bet­ter than none.
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Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.
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Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.
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... always been a goal-oriented girl. it was both her strength and her weakness. She had a drive to completion that always gets things done, but it also made her inflexible, and stubborn.
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Beautiful is dangerous.
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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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