The best Quotes by Neal Shusterman

In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.

Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.

"Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.

The sad truth about humanity... is that people believe what they're told. Maybe not the first time, but by the hundredth time, the craziest of ideas just becomes a given.

Hope in the shadow of fear is the world's most powerful motivator.

"Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent."

Without the threat of suffering, we can’t experience true joy.

I think all young women are cursed with a streak of unrelenting foolishness, and all young men are cursed with a streak of absolute stupidity.

Getting to know someone in blind darkness changes your impression of them.

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

When you live a life without questions, you're unprepared for the questions when they come.

I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it.

The moment you're loved, that's when you got your soul.

Sure, when you're in the midst of your own suffering, it's easy to convince yourself that you're no good - but we are all tested in this life… The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.

There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders.

If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York

After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.

It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

What other people think of you is none of your business.

This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.

The dead are dead, and talking won't bring them back to life.

There are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.