Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
... 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.
Neal Shusterman
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Neal Shusterman
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 12
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Made
Drive
Always
Weakness
Things
Gets
Strength
Inflexible
Goal
Completion
Girl
Oriented
Also
Stubborn
Done
Flexible
More quotes by Neal Shusterman
What do you do with a textbook case when no one's written the textbook?
Neal Shusterman
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.
Neal Shusterman
Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.
Neal Shusterman
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?
Neal Shusterman
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.
Neal Shusterman
There are mysteries in Everlost. Some of them are wonderful, and others scary. They should all be explored, though- perhaps that's why we're here: to experience the good and the bad that Everlost has to offer.
Neal Shusterman
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.
Neal Shusterman
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
Neal Shusterman
Love, Allie concluded, wasn't blind, it simply saw alternate dimensions.
Neal Shusterman
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.
Neal Shusterman
The eternally sleeping princess, thinks Cam. But I shall free you from those poisoned brambles that surround your heart. And then you will have no choice but to love me.
Neal Shusterman
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.
Neal Shusterman
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.
Neal Shusterman
We want what you no longer want.
Neal Shusterman
Who am I? The sum of your dreams, the thrill you refuse to grasp, the unknown you fear.
Neal Shusterman
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
Neal Shusterman
I'm scared, he says.I know, says the nurse.I want you all to go to Hell.That's natural.
Neal Shusterman
The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.
Neal Shusterman
Lev smiles. Leave it to you to turn someone else's screwup into gold
Neal Shusterman
Revelations are never convenient, and always annoying.
Neal Shusterman
