Neal Shusterman
He also keeps his silence when Bible passages become shredded to justify unwinding, and kids start to see the face of God in the fragments.Collection: Kids
I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never waited; they were there upon waking. Our family has a problem with what they called delayed gratification. We want what we want when we want it, and we always want it now.Collection: Running
People would cheer throw confetti and then go about breaking the resolutions they had made only moments before.Collection: Cheer
Would you rather die, or be unwound?Collection: Dies
[...] every time he forces himself to think before acting, it's her voice in his head telling him to slow down. He wants to tell her, but she's always so busy in the medical jet—and you don't just go to somebody and say, "I'm a better person because you're in my head.Collection: Thinking
Whoever invented the spork should be killed.Collection: Should
Because if their own parents didn't care enough about them to keep them, who would want them in Heaven?Collection: Parent
Conner Lassiter. Scheduled to be unwound the 21st of November-until you went AWOL. You caused an accident that killed a bus driver, left dozens of others injured, and shut down an interstate highway for hours. Then, on top of it, you took a hostage AND shot a Juvey-cop with his own tranq gun." ..."He's the Akron AWOL?!Collection: Gun
Mental illness is by far the most misunderstood, and stigmatized, of all afflictions. Statistically, one in three families in the U.S. deals with mental illness, and yet it's rarely discussed in the open. It's time for that to change.Collection: Misunderstood
A family is a collection of strangers trapped in a web of DNA and forced to cope.Collection: Dna
Dreams can twist your emotions like no reality can.Collection: Dream
My grandmother used to say that twisting paths always cross again," he told her. "And whose paths are more twisted than ours?Collection: Grandmother
Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problemCollection: Cities
... always been a goal-oriented girl. it was both her strength and her weakness. She had a drive to completion that always gets things done, but it also made her inflexible, and stubborn.Collection: Girl
I don't want to be empty on the inside.Collection: Want
We want what you no longer want.Collection: Want
Revelations are never convenient, and always annoying.Collection: Annoying
Makes sense, the earth is quick to consume the flesh of things that ain't natural.Collection: Earth
A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.Collection: Pedestal
The eternally sleeping princess, thinks Cam. But I shall free you from those poisoned brambles that surround your heart. And then you will have no choice but to love me.Collection: Princess
They signed the unwind order just to spite each other,but laugh,laugh,laugh,Hayden, because if you ever stop laughing,it might just tear you apart worse than a Chop Shop.Collection: Order
How do you judge the brightness of a light when you’re the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts.Collection: Light
You're going to pee in someone's suitcase?" "Do you have any other ideas?" And suddenly Miracolina begins to snicker, then giggle, then giggle, then cackle uncontrollably. "He's going to pee in someone's suitcase!" "Quiet! Do you want people on the bus to hear you?" But Miracolina is beyond help. She's entered into a fullfledged laughter fit-the kind that leaves your stomach hurting. "They're gonna open their suitcase," she blurts between bursts of glee, "And their clothes’ll be full of pee!Collection: Hurt
Death doesn't just make all the world kin, it makes all religions oneCollection: World
She plays music to heal herself, but nothing can heal her brokenness.Collection: Play
Lev smiles. "Leave it to you to turn someone else's screwup into goldCollection: Gold
I have no idea,' he tells her, and there is such a spark in his eye when he says it, she can tell having no idea is exactly the way he wants it.Collection: Eye
Respect doesn't come without a little resentment.Collection: Littles
With hardly any effort at all, she made me feel special. Just like all the other people she toyed with.Collection: People
Sometimes, though, you make a pact with yourself. I'll pretend there's nothing wrong if you pretend there's nothing wrong. It's called denial, and it's one of the strongest pacts in the world. Just ask all those people who were still drinking champagne while the Titanic went down.Collection: Drinking
How many kids are in the Graveyard?" "A bunch." "Who sends your supplies?" "George Washington. Or is it Abraham Lincoln? I forget." "How often do you receive new arrivals?" "About as often as you beat your wife.Collection: Kids
Leadership is about keeping toilets flushing," the Admiral once said. "Unless you're on the battlefront. Then it's about staying alive. Neither are pleasant.Collection: Alive
Lord, if what I'm doing is wrong, then by all means strike me down. Otherwise set me free.Collection: Mean
We'll never be ready. So I guess that means we're as ready as we'll ever be.Collection: Mean
So is darkness better than a heartfelt lie?Collection: Lying
Tranq'd by your own gun,"Lev says."How pathetic.Collection: Gun
They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves.Collection: Reflection
He does not deserve this. He has done many things, not all good, but he does not deserve this. And he never did get his priest.Collection: Doe
Crawley reached into the pocket of his fancy robe - a dinner jacket, I think it's called. The kind of thing Professer Plum would wear before killing Colonel Mustard in the ballroom with the candlestick.Collection: Thinking
I'm tired of eating your family's lousy, tasteless recipes," Dad said. "Tasteless recipes? My grandmother's rolling in her grave!" "It's from indigestion.Collection: Dad
...if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened...but people like to keep what's theirs, even after they're dead.Collection: People
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.Collection: White
I don't know what happens to our consciousness when we're unwound," says Connor. "I don't even know when that consciousness starts. But I do know this." He pauses to make sure all of them are listening. "We have a right to our lives!" The kids go wild. "We have a right to choose what happens to our bodies!" The cheers reach fever pitch. "We deserve a world where both those things are possible— and it's our job to help make that world.Collection: Jobs
The living do not see eternity, just as they don't see Everlost, but they sense both in ways that they don't even know. They don't feel the Everlost barrier set across the Mississippi River, and yet no one had ever dared to draw city boundaries that straddle both sides of its waters. The living do not see Afterlights, and yet everyone has had times when they've felt a presence near them - sometimes comforting, sometimes not - but always strong enough to make one turn around and look over one's shoulder.Collection: Strong
How much do you know about the Heartland War?' Connor shrugs. 'It was the last chapter in our history textbook, but we had state testing, so we never got to it.Collection: War
I'm Switzerland; neutral as can be, and also with great chocolate.Collection: Chocolate
It's amazing how people can surprise you.Collection: People
The rides are different for everyone. I'm convinced of that now. I mean, sure, there are some we ride together. Either we find ourselves drawn to some common experience, or maybe we're pulled in by the people we care about. Our friends, our families can drag us onto coasters and Tilt-A-Whirls that are really meant for them. But in the end, no matter whose rides we find ourselves on, the experience is all our own.Collection: Mean
And," added Mikey. "she's my sister." The others looked at him for a moment, and broke out laughing. "Yeah, yeah," Squirrel scoffed, "and the McGill is my cousin." Now Allie burst out laughing, which made Mikey more annoyed. "If the McGill was your cousin," Mikey said, "I can guarantee he'd disown you.Collection: Cousin