“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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“Non esiste in astratto un buon libro: un libro è buono soltanto quando appaga una fame umana, o confuta qualche umano errore.”
― Christopher Morley, quote from The Haunted Bookshop
“Trains are relentless things, aren't they, Monsieur Poirot? People are murdered and die, but they go on just the same. I am talking nonsense, but you know what I mean."
"Yes, yes, I know. Life is like a train, Mademoiselle. It goes on. And it is a good thing that that is so."
"Why?"
"Because the train gets to its journey's end at last, and there is a proverb about that in your language, Mademoiselle."
"'Journey's end in lovers meeting.'" Lenox laughed. "That is not going to be true for me."
"Yes--yes, it is true. You are young, younger than you yourself know. Trust the train, Mademoiselle, for it is le bon Dieu who drives it."
The whistle of the engine came again.
"Trust the train, Mademoiselle," murmured Poirot again. "And trust Hercule Poirot. He knows.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from The Mystery of the Blue Train
“Before Rohan could reply, a new voice entered the conversation. "What's this?"
It was Leo, who had just arisen from bed and pulled on his clothes. He came barefoot from the direction of his bedroom. His bleary gaze moved over the pair of them.
"Why are you on the floor with your buttons undone?"
Amelia considered the question. "I decided to have a spontaneous tryst in the middle of the hallway with a man I hardly know."
"Well, try to be quiet about it next time. A fellow needs his sleep."
Amelia stared at him quizzically. "For heaven's sake, Leo, aren't you worried that I may have been compromised?"
"Were you?"
"I..." Her face turned hot as she glanced into Rohan's vivid topaz eyes. "I don't think so."
"If you're not sure about it," Leo said, "you probably weren't.”
― Lisa Kleypas, quote from Mine Till Midnight
“just as children have growing pains as their bodies work to attain maturity, as people’s souls deepen and gain resonance it’s the same thing. To be challenged, to stretch, to get stronger comes only with the hard stuff—loss, heartache, disappointment.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Immortal
“Mistress Halloran, the rotund innkeeper of the Unicorn’s Tail, hurried out into the bright afternoon carrying a plate of pastries. She nodded a greeting as soon as she noticed them and shouted up to him, “Did you win, my boy?” Heat flaring in his cheeks, he shook his head curtly.”
― Valerie Zambito, quote from An Oath of the Blood
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