Quotes by Neal Shusterman

The good Lord wouldnt have put it in your heart if it wasnt right.

Dont you recognize me, Mary? Its your good friend Allie the Outcast - although it looks like youre the one whos the out-cast now. Then Allie realized something with far too much glee. Now that youre here - alive and all - theres something Ive wanted to do for a very long time.Then Allie reached back, curled her fleshies right hand into a fist, and swung it toward Mary with all her might.This was one strong fleshie!The punch connected with Marys eye so hard, that Marys entire body spun around, and she collapsed into a leopard chair. Allies knuckles hurt, but it was a good kind of pain.My eye! wailed Mary. Oh! My eye.

She was deemed an unfit mother, in spite of the fact that she goes to the gym every day, Hal once told me. . . .Beautiful people are often forgiven for many things--and maybe shes gotten through life that way, but I dont forgive her for anything--and I dont even know what awful things shes done other than showing a lack of parental fitness.

So is darkness better than a heartfelt lie?

Im going out to find her, to make things right, or atleast properly wrong.

...One thing you learn when youve lived as long as I have-people arent all good, and people arent all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, Im pleased to be in the light.

We are, however, creatures of containment. We want all things in life packed into boxes that we can label. But just because we have the ability to label it, doesnt mean we really know whats in the box.Its kind of religion. It gives us comfort to believe we have defined something that is, by its very nature, indefinable. As to whether or not weve gotten it right, well, its all a matter of faith.

You cant change laws without first changing human nature... You cant change human nature without first changing the law.

The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but were so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.

This is not going to be easy. Im good at being bad, but Im bad at being good. I dont know the first thing about good deeds.

Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.

Elasticity is a fundamental principle of perception,

while it’s five in the morning here, it’s also five in the evening somewhere in China—proving that incompatible truths make perfect sense when seen with global perspective.

Heaven might shine bright, but so do flames.

...You know something, dont you?I know lots of things--your inquiry needs to be more specific.Just answer the question.True/false or multiple choice?

Respect doesnt come without a little resentment.

Live by your impulses, and youll be just like them. Youre better than that, arent you, Red?

Makes sense, the earth is quick to consume the flesh of things that aint natural.

Were this big melting pot, but someone turned up the heat too high, and the stew started to burn. Gangs, crime, fights, and fear are now a regular part of our local stew.

I’m evolving, is the thing; I’m a god becoming a constellation.’‘The constellations are mostly demigods,’ I point out. ‘And they didn’t get to be constellations until after they died.’He laughs at that, and says, ‘Death is a small sacrifice to become immortal.