“And you know the darkness beyond despair, just as intimately as you know the soaring heights. Because in this and all universes, there is balance. You can't have the one without facing the other. And sometimes you think you can take it because the joy is worth the despair, and sometimes you know you can't take it and how did you ever think you could? And there is the dance; strength and weakness, confidence and desolation.”
Neal Shusterman“We're roughage," Tyger said. "If we don't cause a little intestinal distress, no one knows we're there.”
Neal Shusterman, Scythe“No true hero ever believes that they are one.”
Neal Shusterman, 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, UnSouled“but laugh, laugh, laugh, because if you ever stop laughing, it might just tear you apart”
Neal Shusterman“Hayden shouts, "To the new Teen Uprising!”
Neal Shusterman“I'm going out to find her, to make things right, or atleast properly wrong.”
Neal Shusterman“How easy is murder when one calls it by a different name? How much easier is it for the conscience to condone “reaping” than “killing”—and when one knows that death isn’t the end, does it stop the killing hand for fear of retribution, or does it simply make it easier to kill, because, if life continues, how can murder be murder at all?”
Neal Shusterman“Mary believes she was put on earth to bring an end to the living world.”Both Nick and Mikey just stared at her.“What do you mean … end?” asked Mikey.“End means end. Complete and total destruction. She wants to kill everyone and everything. She wants to bring down every building, burn every forest, empty every ocean of life. She wants to turn the earth into a dead planet …”
Neal Shusterman, Everfound“Walls don't fall without effort.”
Neal Shusterman, Bruiser“It was easier to deal with Tennyson when he was fighting me; but having him on my side was frightening, because now I didn't know who the enemy was.”
Neal Shusterman, Bruiser