“Tools are neither demonic nor divine. It’s all about who wields them.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnDivided
“Best way to save humanity is to turn the monsters against one another.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnDivided
“...facts never prevent the ignorant from jerking their knees into the groin of science.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnDivided
“...survival is a dance between our needs and our consciences.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnDivided
“In a population of hundreds of millions, such a small number of people is a mere drop in the bucket... but enough drops can make any bucket overflow”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnDivided
“Hole..." He grips Risa's hand tighter. "Hole, Risa, hole..." And she smiles "Yes, Connor," she says. "You're whole. You're finally whole.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnDivided
“We must always be careful of the actions we take, for there are always unintended consequences. Sometimes they are serendipitous, other times they are appalling, but those consequences are always there. We must tread lightly in this world...until we are sure of foot.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnDivided
“AWOL’s most valuable commodity: hope. It’s something in short supply for those who have been deemed not worth the sum of their parts.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnDivided
“We are not the enemy,” he says. “That’s what the enemy always says.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnDivided
“The accountant lingers at his children's doorway a moment more, listening to the easy rhythm of their breathing, and something cold moves through him, like the passage of a ghost - but he know that's not it. It's more like the portent of a future. A future that must never come to pass...
...and for the first time, he gives rise to a thought that is silently echoed in millions of homes that night.
My God... what have we done?”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnDivided
“... but how can you live in the moment when all you want is for the moment to end?”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnDivided
“And so, as the mob backs away to give them space... as the riot police holster their weapons, standing down, and as Risa takes the podium, calming the crowd with a voice as soothing as a sonata, Connor Lassiter holds his family like he'll never let them go.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnDivided
“Today he failed to change the world. As for tomorrow, who can tell?”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnDivided
“I never met the boy, or his parents, but I see kids like him every day.” Sonia tells Connor. “Their world is shattered, and they’re so desperate for validation that they’d blow themselves up to get it. Any parent who disowns that boy after what he did, and didn’t do . . . doesn’t deserve to have children at all, much less a child to give away.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnDivided
“You should learn to relish the hunger more than the feast, lest you become a glutton.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnDivided
“You are only one boy, with one voice...If you keep trying to be a choir, you'll lose that voice, and then who will hear you?”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnDivided
“You see, Risa, survival is a dance between our needs and our consciences. When the need is great enough, and the music loud enough, we can stomp conscience into the ground.'
Risa closes her eyes. She knows the dance...
'It's the way of the world,' Divan continues. 'Look at unwinding, society's grand gavotte of denial. There will, no doubt, come a time when people look to one another and say, 'My God, what have we done?' But I don't believe it will happen any time soon. Until then, the dance must have music; the chorus must have its voice. Give it that voice, Risa. Play for me.'
But Risa's fingers offer him nothing, and the Orgao Organico holds the obdurate, unyielding silence of the grave.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnDivided
“I'm a savant when it comes to character judgment," he tells her. "For instance, most people wouldn't see anything in you besides attitude and a need for stronger deodorant, but I think you can handle the storks almost as well as Connor handled the Graveyard."
Bam gives him a halfhearted glare. "Can you ever give a compliment without also making it an insult?"
"No," he admits. "Not possible. It's the essence of my charm.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnDivided
“facts never prevent the ignorant from jerking their knees into the groin of science.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnDivided
“Impressive, isn’t it?” Divan says with pride. “I purchased it from a Brazilian artist, who has apparently made a career working in flesh. He claims his artwork is to protest unwinding, but I ask you, how much of a protest can it be if he uses the unwound for his art?”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnDivided
“We all need a moratorium on misery now and then.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnDivided
“There isn't one single thing that will end unwinding. It will take a hodgepodge of random events that come together in just the right way and at just the right time to remind society it's got a conscience. -Sonia”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnDivided
“You’re not eating, Cam,” Roberta says as she comes out to join him across the table. Roberta—his creator, or builder—whatever term one gives to the individual who conceived of you. Perhaps, then, it should be “mother,” though he’s loath to use the word.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnDivided
“I'm sure my parents must be proud. Or horrified. Or are bitterly arguing about whether they're proud or horrified, and have already hired lawyers to resolve the dispute. -Hayden Upchurch”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnDivided
“I love you, Risa," he says. "Every last part of me.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnDivided
“When your parents turn you in to the Juvenile Authority - and they will - I will not shed a single tear for you, Connor Lassiter.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnDivided
“I must be doing something right if the crazies think I'm as powerful as the Antichrist.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnDivided
“Are people really such sheep that they can be fooled? Maybe. Or maybe with so much conflicting media, people just shut down. Maybe that’s the point.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnDivided
“Are people really such sheep that they can be fooled?”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnDivided
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“There is no end of things in the heart.
Somebody once told me that. She said it came from a poem she believed in. She understood it to mean that if you took something to heart, really brought it inside those red velvet folds, then it would always be there for you. No matter what happened, it would be there waiting. She said this could mean a person, a place, a dream. A mission. Anything sacred. She told me that it is all connected in those secret folds. Always. It is all part of the same and will always be there, carrying the same beat as your heart.
I am fifty-two-years old and I believe it. At night when I try to sleep but can’t, that is when I know it. It is when all the pathways seem to connect and I see the people I have loved and hated and helped and hurt. I see the hands that reach for me. I hear the beat and see and understand what I must do. I know my mission and I know there is no turning away or turning back. And it is in those moments that I know there is no end of things in the heart.”
― Michael Connelly, quote from Lost Light
“Evil is at its boldest when it walks an unerring path.”
― Steven Erikson, quote from Forge of Darkness
“To look at a star by glances—to view it in a side-long way, by turning toward it the exterior portions of the retina (more susceptible of feeble impressions of light than the interior), is to behold the star distinctly—is to have the best appreciation of its lustre—a lustre which grows dim just in proportion as we turn our vision fully upon it. A greater number of rays actually fall upon the eye in the latter case, but in the former, there is the more refined capacity for comprehension. By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from The Murders in the Rue Morgue
“And then it happens. The panic. It's slow at first, creeping through the cracks in my thoughts until everything starts to feel heavy. It builds; it becomes something physical that clutches at my insides and squeezes out the air and the blood.”
― Sara Barnard, quote from A Quiet Kind of Thunder
“We're going through the black air with our arms wide and our feet straight out behind like a dolphin's tail, and we're going to think we'll never hit the silver down there till suddenly it'll be all warm round us and full of little kissing, caressing waves.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, quote from Flappers and Philosophers
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