Quotes by Neal Shusterman

About Neal Shusterman:

Neal Shusterman is a popular and successful American writer of young-adult fiction.
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Which side was I on? There was no time to search for answers. All I could do now was ride on a werewolf's back, toward a destiny as hidden as the dark side of the moon.

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You can't imagine what it's like to be torn between darkness and light- to be a traitor no matter what move you make. If my grandmother and Marissa died tonight, it would be because I had stayed in the darkness too long, flirting with the idea of bei...

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Makes sense, the earth is quick to consume the flesh of things that ain't natural.

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I almost told her everything right then. I wanted to tell her about the Wolves, and how I was supposed to hate them, but when you spend your days with evil, some of it is bound to soak into your clothes, like cigar smoke in a closed room.

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Man, Grandma, what big hair you have." "The better to style with, my dear.

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Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.

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Live by your impulses, and you'll be just like them. You're better than that, aren't you, Red?

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Did you ever get the feeling that everything was too perfect? Like the moment was so good that something had to be wrong? Kind of like the way a fish sees that bright, shiny lure just before it chomps down and gets hauled out of water to become someo...

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I went home and tried to sleep, but couldn't, so I stared up at the moon, watching how it's trailing edge faded into darkness, so close to being full, but not quite there. A pregnant moon, Grandma called it. Full almost to bursting, and ready to give...

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We're 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.

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You tell your brother he's gonna pay for that car in silver.

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His life did not so much flash before his eyes, as slap him in the face

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...Our conversation with the supermarket manager had been about as helpful as a New Jersey road sign, and if you've ever been there, you know the signs don't tell you the exit you're coming up to, they only point out the exits you've just missed. It ...

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...the Statue of Liberty's got this invitation: 'Give me your tired, your poor, your reeking homeless--' 'Huddled masses,' said Ira. 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.' ... Okay, fine. So like everybody in t...

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Griping is for those without a plan of action...

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I was asking if unwinding kills you, or if it leaves you alive somehow. C'mon—it's not like we haven't thought about it." (...) What do you think, Connor?" asks Hayden. "What hap­pens to your soul when you get unwound?" Who says I even got one?" F...

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I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

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

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The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

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We'll never be ready. So I guess that means we're as ready as we'll ever be.

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Whether consciousness is implanted in us by something divine, or whether it is created by the efforts of our brains, the end result is the same. We are.

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Author Bio

  • NameNeal Shusterman
  • Descriptionnovelist
  • BornNovember 12, 1962
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist