Neal Shusterman
Love, Allie concluded, wasn't blind, it simply saw alternate dimensions.Collection: Saws
Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.Collection: War
On a sunny Tuesday - for it seems so many awful things happen on a Tuesday - six astronauts and one schoolteacher attempted to pierce the sky. Instead they touched the stars.Collection: Stars
Touch is a freaky thing when you're not used to it. It makes you feel all kinds of things.Collection: Kind
You are so obtuse!" Brontë says, exasperated. I am calm in my response. "Do you mean stupid, or angular? You need to be more specific with your insults.Collection: Stupid
But now we've finally taken full possession of what is rightfully ours, because everyone must feel their own pain--and as awful as that is, it's also wonderful.Collection: Pain
This game's stupid," said Lief. "Who the heck is Zelda, anyway?Collection: Stupid
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.Collection: Deeds
Great tragedies have great consequences. They ripple through the fabric of this world and the next. When the loss is too great for either world to bear, Everlost absorbs the shock, like a cushion between the two.Collection: Loss
Adulthood can do the most horrific things to the best of people.Collection: People
What? Were you born stupid, or did you just die that way?Collection: Stupid
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.Collection: Effort
Roland glares at Connor and Connor glares back. Then he says what he always says at moments like this. "Nice socks." Although Roland doesn't look down right away, it derails him just enough for him to back off. He doesn't check to see if his socks match until he thinks Connor isn't looking. And the moment he does, Connor snickers. Small victories are better than none.Collection: Nice
We move in and out of darkness and light all our lives. Right now I'm pleased to be in the light.Collection: Moving
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.Collection: Hair
The thing was, if I had found a way to escape- even for just a little while- I knew the pain would be there waiting for me when I got back.Collection: Pain
It comes with being sixteen," Mom said. "You teenagers, you go into a cocoon when you turn fifteen and don't come out for years." "So they become butterflies when they finally come out?" my little sister Christina asked. "No," Mom said. "They're still caterpillars, only now they're big fat caterpillars that smell.Collection: Mom
It's strange how we always want other people to feel what we feel. It must be a basic human drive. Misery loves company, right? Or when you see a movie that you love, don't you want to drag all your friends to see it as well? Because it's only good the second time if it's the first time for somebody else—as if their experience somehow resonates inside of you.Collection: People
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.Collection: Alive
I'm scared," he says."I know," says the nurse."I want you all to go to Hell.""That's natural.Collection: Nurse
The way I see it, truth only looks good when you're looking at it from far away. It's kind of like that beautiful girl you see on the street when you're riding past in the bus... there she is, this amazing girl walking by on the street, and you think if you could only get off this stupid bus and introduce yourself to her, your life would change. The thing is, she's not as perfect as you think, and if you ever got off the bus to introduce yourself, you'd find out... This girl is truth. She's not so pretty, not so nice. But then, once you get to know her, all that stuff doesn't seem to matter.Collection: Beautiful
Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.Collection: Flames
There's a quickening of her heart when she sees him. She tells herself it's anger.Collection: Heart
Then she offers him a slim but sincere smile, and he reluctantly returns it. It doesn't bridge the gap between them, but at least it marks the spot where the bridge might be built.Collection: Bridges
It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely.Collection: Lonely
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.Collection: Hair
The scariest thing of all is never knowing what you're suddenly going to believe.Collection: Believe
Would you rather die, or be unwound? Now he finally knows the answer. Maybe this is what he wanted. Maybe it's why he stood there and taunted Roland. Because he'd rather be killed with a furious hand than dismembered with cool indifference.Collection: Hands
He's become like that briefcase in the ground-full of gems yet void of light, so nothing sparkles, nothing shines.Collection: Light
Well...you're a martyr and I'm a patron saint-I can't think of anyone better!Collection: Thinking
Hayden shouts, "To the new Teen Uprising!Collection: Uprising
The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.Collection: Men
There's a set of unspoken rules we live by when it comes to fighting. We can't help it. It comes from living in a civilized world. Even when you're fighting your hardest, somewhere deep down, you know how far you can go. But today the rules are gone. Today I fight not to win, but to destroy.Collection: Life
What can fingerprints mean when they’re not necessarily yours?Collection: Mean
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.Collection: Travel
How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?" "They do it all the time," says Hayden. "That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.Collection: Law
I mean, it's like we all get our raw materials from our families―but it's up to us whether we build bridges or bombs.Collection: Mean
In short, there are mysteries of science and of soul that will never be understood no matter how hard we measure, no matter how strongly we believe, no matter how deep our think tanks and how high our aspirations. But as anyone will tell you—for we all know this within our hearts—the impossible happens and grand cosmic mysteries are solved on a regular basis, although most of the time the solutions lead to even greater mysteries.Collection: Believe
Do you know that if you take the books in an average school library and stretched out all those words into a single line, the line would go all the way around the world? Actually, I made that up, but doesn't it sound like it should be true?Collection: Book
They say you never know who's the real hero and who's the real coward until you're looking death in the face. I've always been afraid of plenty of things, but fear isn't what makes you a coward. It's how depraved your heart becomes when fear gets pumped through it.Collection: Real
Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.Collection: Fighting
We weren't going anywhere," Nick said with a smile. He was trying to sound charming, but instead wound up sounding heavily sedated.Collection: Trying
Walls don't fall without effort.Collection: Wall
It's funny how a flame can only burn your hand if you move too slow, you can tease it all you want and it never gets you, if your quick enough.Collection: Moving
Already Roland feels his limbs starting to go numb. He swallows hard. "I hate this. I hate you. I hate all of you." "I understand.Collection: Hate
One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.Collection: Past
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.Collection: Jobs
But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is. -ConnorCollection: Thinking
You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.Collection: People