“Monster only had the power that you gave them”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from Everlost
“Your hair looks funny," Lief said, as soon as the Ugloids left. "It stands straight up!"
No," said Nick, intensely irritated, "It's hanging straight down."
Lief just gave him an upside-down shrug. "Up is down in China and you're part-Chinese.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from Everlost
“This book is so interesting. I always wonder what's going to happen next.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from Everlost
“And next to Allie, the screamer, once more reminded of his job, began to wail in Allie's ear. Reflexively Allie clapped her hand over his mouth. "That," she said, "is totally uncalled for. Don't do that again. Ever." The screamer looked at her with worried eyes. "Are we clear on this subject?" said Allie. The screamer nodded and she removed her hand.
"Can I scream a little?" he asked.
"No," said Allie. "Your screaming days are over."
"Darn." And he was quiet thereafter.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from Everlost
“This game's stupid," said Lief. "Who the heck is Zelda, anyway?”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from Everlost
“What? Were you born stupid, or did you just die that way?”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from Everlost
“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, quote from Everlost
“This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from Everlost
“We weren't going anywhere," Nick said with a smile. He was trying to sound charming, but instead wound up sounding heavily sedated.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from Everlost
“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?”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from Everlost
“On a hairpin turn, above the dead forest, on no day in particular, a white Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur of gray.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from Everlost
“I imagine the center of the Earth must be a crowded place by now, but perhaps it is the spirits of those of us residing there that keep the Earth alive and green.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from Everlost
“But we can't choose what we forget. The more we try to forget something, the more we end up remembering it.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from Everlost
“It can be said, then, that Everlost is heaven...for the places that deserve a share of forever.
Such places are few and far between...The greatest of these stood near Manhattan's southern-most tip: the two gray brothers to the green statue in the bay. The towers had found their heaven...held fast, and held forever by the memories of a mourning world, and by the dignity of the souls who got where they were going on that dark September day.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from Everlost
“Ghost implies a whole lot of things that I am NOT. Do I look like Casper to you?"
"Fine," said Nick. "We're not ghosts, we're Undefined Spectral Doohickies. USDs. Are you happy now?”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from Everlost
“I wish you could have felt that slap I wish you could feel the pain.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from Everlost
“Well, this place was not purgatory, Nirvana, or any sort of rebirth, and it occurred to Nick that regardless of what people believed, the universe had its own ideas.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from Everlost
“white Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from Everlost
“Se vuoi qualcosa con tutte le tue forze, prima o poi la ottieni”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from Everlost
“Forse siamo come una moneta in bilico”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from Everlost
“Dove tu vedi vuoto, io vedo possibilità”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from Everlost
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“We had never built, never created, only stolen your garments and lived in your cities and fed ourselves on your life, your vitality, your very blood—but we could create, given a chance, we had it within us to whisper stories of cities of our own. The red thirst has been a curse, has made my race and yours enemies, has robbed my people of all noble aspirations.”
― George R.R. Martin, quote from Fevre Dream
“John says I musn't lose my strength, and has me take cod liver oil and lots of tonics and things, to say nothing of ale and wine and rare meat.
Dear John! He loves me very dearly, and hates to have me sick. I tried to have a real earnest reasonable talk with him the other day, and tell him how I wish he would let me go and make a visit to Cousin Henry and Julia.
But he said I wasn't able to go, nor able to stand it after I got there; and I did not make out a very good case for myself, for I was crying before I had finished.
It is getting to be a great effort for me to think straight. Just this nervous weakness I suppose.
And dear John gathered me up in his arms, and just carried me upstairs and laid me on the bed, and sat by me and read to me till it tired my head.
He said I was his darling and his comfort and all he had, and that I must take care of myself for his sake, and keep well.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, quote from The Yellow Wall-Paper
“There are bagels over there, please have one."
"Thanks, but I'm not hungry."
He looked at me with his morning green eyes, "You have to eat Ellery."
I sighed, "I never eat when I first wake up, but don't worry dad I'll ahve one in a little bit."
A slight irritated smile graced his face, "You're even a smart ass first thing in the morning." I held up my cup and smiled.”
― Sandi Lynn, quote from Forever Black
“I don't like the words 'I'm fine'. My mom tells me those two words are the most-frequently-told lie in the English lenguage.”
― Kasie West, quote from The Fill-In Boyfriend
“How far we all come. How far we all come away from ourselves. So far, so much between, you can never go home again. You can go home, it's good to go home, but you never really get all the way home again in your life. And what's it all for? All I tried to be, all I ever wanted and went away for, what's it all for?
Just one way, you do get back home. You have a boy or a girl of your own and now and then you remember, and you know how they feel, and it's almost the same as if you were your own self again, as young as you could remember.
And God knows he was lucky, so many ways, and God knows he was thankful. Everything was good and better than he could have hoped for, better than he ever deserved; only, whatever it was and however good it was, it wasn't what you once had been, and had lost, and could never have again, and once in a while, once in a long time, you remembered, and knew how far you were away, and it hit you hard enough, that little while it lasted, to break your heart.”
― James Agee, quote from A Death in the Family
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