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Revelations are never convenient, and always annoying.

Neal Shusterman

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Neal Shusterman
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 12
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Science Fiction Writer
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Brooklyn
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Statistically speaking, there's a better chance that some part of me will go on to greatness somewhere in the world. I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.
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All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world.
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...You know something, don't you? I know lots of things--your inquiry needs to be more specific. Just answer the question. True/false or multiple choice?
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Love, Allie concluded, wasn't blind, it simply saw alternate dimensions.
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I'll never understand how a man can live his life With his finger on the self-destruct button, Holding it there day after day, Blinded by an obsession to press it But lacking the conviction to do even that.
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What do you do with a textbook case when no one's written the textbook?
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One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.
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It's amazing that something as simple as a kiss can overpower the worst of worries.
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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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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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His life has been like a ballpark, hasn't it? All lines, structure, and rules, never changing. But now he's been hit over the wall into unknown territory.
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...the first sign of civilization is always trash.
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If you have to ask then you don't deserve an answer.
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Anger is only our friend when we know its caliber and how to aim it.
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It's a big question. Where do you begin to change the world?
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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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Already Roland feels his limbs starting to go numb. He swallows hard. I hate this. I hate you. I hate all of you. I understand.
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There's a set of unspoken rules we live by when it comes to fighting. We can't help it. It comes from living in a civilized world. Even when you're fighting your hardest, somewhere deep down, you know how far you can go. But today the rules are gone. Today I fight not to win, but to destroy.
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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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Most people have two emergency modes. Fight and Flight. But Conner always knew he had three. Fight, Flight, and Screw Up Royally.
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