“Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnSouled
“No true hero ever believes that they are one.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnSouled
“Cowards hide [...] but warriors lie and wait [...] the only difference is whether you're motivated by fear or purpose.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnSouled
“One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnSouled
“You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnSouled
“Good in Crisis; Sucks at Normal.’ That about sums up my whole life, doesn’t it?”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnSouled
“A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnSouled
“Incredible. It never ceases to amaze Starkey how far society will go to protect the children it loves and to discard the ones it doesn’t.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnSouled
“Sometimes, Lev, I just want to smack you."
"You already hit him with a car.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnSouled
“She idly wonders which is crueler, man or nature. She determines it must be man. Nature has no remorse, but neither does it have malice.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnSouled
“(B)ut when the time is right and the winds begin to change, even the deadest of dreams can be resurrected.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnSouled
“Talking about someone in the third person is rude." Cam tells her coolly.
"Really?" Says Connor. "When you're a hundred people, wouldn't third person be a compliment?”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnSouled
“They have elevated him on a pedestal, but...a pedestal is nothing more than an elegant cage. No walls, no locks, but unless one has wings to fly away, one is trapped. A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnSouled
“Pain is weakness leaving the body.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnSouled
“Wars have a way reinventing people. And making too many things disappear.
-Sonia”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnSouled
“definition. How can she not see that when you are defined, you lose the ability to define yourself?”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnSouled
“They are not people--they are ideas. They are just extensions of the enemy.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnSouled
“You must stop these reckless surrenders to your momentary moods.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnSouled
“Please give me a single reason why I shouldn't hurl myself beneath the wheels of that bus.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnSouled
“Love the ponytail," Connor says, pointing at his hair.
Lev shrugs. "It's just because my hair is so tatted. But maybe I'll keep it."
"Don't," Connor tells him. "I lied. I hate it.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnSouled
“Cam knows this is not going to be a good day the moment he sees the chain saw.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnSouled
“If you come anywhere near my daughter, I will see to it that you are taken apart piece by bloody piece. Do I make myself clear?"
"Any clearer," says Cam, "and you'd be invisible.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnSouled
“But birthdays are random... Defining one's life by the day one was cut from an umbilical cord is completely arbitrary.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnSouled
“a true leader never puts his ego ahead of his assets.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnSouled
“I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnSouled
“Do we exist because others perceive our existence, or is, indeed, our own affirmation enough?”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnSouled
“But life doesn’t end,” the smiling proponents of unwinding all insist. “It just transforms. We like to call it ‘living in a divided state.’ ”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnSouled
“Luck, however, is too dumb to remain consistent”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnSouled
“I was actually being sincere,” Connor admits. “But I’m happy to insult you, if that’s what you want.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnSouled
“The exploration of possibility has always been the realm of science. The true scientist leave practical application to others.”
― Neal Shusterman, quote from UnSouled
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“Walls, windows, roof, verandah–entirely commonplace, mean even–moved her with the austere poetry of their function. Here a man sheltered from and diminished the horror and vulgarity of the world by the simplicity of his arrangements for living in it.”
― Paul Scott, quote from The Towers of Silence
“Heads in the Women's Ward
On pillow after pillow lies
The wild white hair and staring eyes;
Jaws stand open; necks are stretched
With every tendon sharply sketched;
A bearded mouth talks silently
To someone no one else can see.
Sixty years ago they smiled
At lover, husband, first-born child.
Smiles are for youth. For old age come
Death's terror and delirium.”
― Philip Larkin, quote from Collected Poems
“Often, maybe even usually, Bernie ended up being the smartest human in the room. Tonight was different.”
― Spencer Quinn, quote from Dog on It
“We were also born," Line said abruptly. Mendel questioned her with a look, and Line tried to clarify her thought: "Born, expelled. Russia conceived us, nourished us, made us grow in her darkness, as in a womb; then she had labor pains, contractions, and threw us out; and now here we are, naked and new, like babies just born. Isn't it the same for you?"
"Narische meidele, vos darst do freden?" Mendel rebutted, feeling on his lips and affectionate smile and a light veil over his eyes.”
― Primo Levi, quote from If Not Now, When?
“If I were asked under what sky the human mind…has most deeply pondered over the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions to some of them which well deserve the attention even of those who have studied Plato and Kant—I should point to India. And if I were to ask myself from what literature we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans, and of one Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw the corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more comprehensive, more universal, in fact more truly human a life…again I should point to India. Max Müller On”
― Huston Smith, quote from The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions
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