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1. "Truth is truth. Implications are subjective. People will hear your words and draw their own conclusion. (282)" ~ Neal Shusterman
2. "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." ~ Neal Shusterman
3. "No, it's not!" says Emby."Hey—he wanted my opinion, I gave it.""But it's wrong!""You see, Hayden? You see what you started?""Yes!" Hayden says excitedly. "It looks like we're about to have our own little Heartland War. Pity it's too dark for us to watch it." ~ Neal Shusterman
4. "Perhaps, thought Talon, there was a path in between. A way to shed their ignorance without losing their souls." ~ Neal Shusterman
5. "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 birth to something unthinkable." ~ Neal Shusterman
6. "When I touched that boy, I felt something. Something awful. Something I can't describe.""We all felt it," Nick said."You may have felt it, but I caused it." Then both his eyes seemed to go far away. "Something changed out there. I don't know what it was, but something in the world changed because that kid didn't deserve what I did to him—and the powers that be know that I did it." Nick watched as a tear fell from his Everlost eye and disappeared through the living world table."What if," said Nick, not even sure what he was going to say yet, "what if you were that kid and you were told you could change the world, but you would have to sacrifice yourself to do it?"Clarence chuckled at the thought. "I believe that question was already asked a long time ago, and that creepy kid did not look anything like Jesus to me.""But you do think that something changed. . . .""I don't know whether it's good or bad.""What if it's neither?" suggested Nick. "What if we get to make it one or the other?" ~ Neal Shusterman
7. "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." ~ Neal Shusterman
8. "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
9. "As for the other team, there would be much weeping and gnashing of teeth, as the Bible says." ~ Neal Shusterman
10. "It stands as an unspoken warning to everyy Unwind there. You will get with the program,or your stay here will be very, very, short. The lesson is always learned." ~ Neal Shusterman
11. "unwinding is, by law, painless." ~ Neal Shusterman
12. "Fine," Connor tells him. "Think about stuff until your head explodes. But the only thing I want to think about is surviving to eighteen."I find your shallowness both refreshing and disappointing at the same time. Do you think that means I need therapy?" ~ Neal Shusterman
13. "What if . . . what if . . ."What if it's a harvest camp after all?" says Emby. Connor doesn't tell him to shut up this time, because he's thinking the same thing.It's Diego who answers him. "If it is, then I want my fin gers to go to a sculptor. So he can use them to craft something that will last forever."They all think about that. Hayden is the next to speak."If I'm unwound," says Hayden, "I want my eyes to go to a photographer — one who shoots supermodels. That's what I want these eyes to see.""My lips'll go to a rock star," says Connor."These legs are definitely going to the Olympics.""My ears to an orchestra conductor.""My stomach to a food critic.""My biceps to a body builder.""I wouldn't wish my sinuses on anybody."And they're all laughing as the plane touches down." ~ Neal Shusterman
14. "Lord, if what I'm doing is wrong, then by all means strike me down. Otherwise set me free." ~ Neal Shusterman
15. "His life was a festival of excess that could not be contained. Deafening music, eye-popping bright colors, sugar added to almost everything he ate. Quinn's life was a bullet in a barrel ready to explode." ~ Neal Shusterman
16. "Connor bangs his head back sharply against the wall, hoping to jar loose the bad thoughts clinging to his brain. This is not a good place to be alone with your thoughts. Perhaps that's why Hayden feels compelled to talk." ~ Neal Shusterman
17. "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." ~ Neal Shusterman
18. "Because if their own parents didn't care enough about them to keep them, who would want them in Heaven?" ~ Neal Shusterman
19. "If you have to ask then you don't deserve an answer." ~ Neal Shusterman
20. "Lik the tree falling in the forest," says Ira."Huh?""You know, the old question - if a tree falls in a forest and no one's there to hear it, does it really make a sound?" Howie considers this. "Is it a pine forest, or oak?""What's the difference?""Oak is a much denser wood; it's more likely to be heard by someone on the freeway next to the forest where no one is." ~ Neal Shusterman
21. "of course, if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened... but people like to keep what's theirs, even after their dead. It didnt take long for ethics to be crushed by greed. Unwinding became big business, and people let it happen" ~ Neal Shusterman
22. "(Why did they call them sneakers if it was so hard to sneak in them?)" ~ Neal Shusterman
23. "Don't you recognize me, Mary? It's your good friend Allie the Outcast - although it looks like you're the one who's the out-cast now." Then Allie realized something with far too much glee. "Now that you're here - alive and all - there's something I've wanted to do for a very long time."Then Allie reached back, curled her fleshie's right hand into a fist, and swung it toward Mary with all her might.This was one strong fleshie!The punch connected with Mary's eye so hard, that Mary's entire body spun around, and she collapsed into a leopard chair. Allie's knuckles hurt, but it was a good kind of pain."My eye!" wailed Mary. "Oh! My eye." ~ Neal Shusterman
24. "Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?"Allie considered this. "Meaning?""Meaning, we might be able to shake things up a little, and find a way to come up heads.""Or tails," suggested Allie."What are you talking about?" said Lief."Life and death." ~ Neal Shusterman
25. "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." ~ Neal Shusterman
26. "This game's stupid," said Lief. "Who the heck is Zelda, anyway?" ~ Neal Shusterman
27. "What can fingerprints mean when they're not necessarily yours?" ~ Neal Shusterman
28. "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." ~ Neal Shusterman
29. "It made my blood boil so hot, my brain stopped working right." ~ Neal Shusterman
30. "Sometimes, Lev, I just want to smack you.""You already hit him with a car." ~ Neal Shusterman
31. "I'm scared," he says."I know," says the nurse."I want you all to go to Hell.""That's natural." ~ Neal Shusterman
32. "Fight, flight, and screw up royaly." ~ Neal Shusterman
33. "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." ~ Neal Shusterman
34. "Walls don't fall without effort." ~ Neal Shusterman
35. "He felt a fluttering inside his chest that he mistook for an air pocket - probably left from when he pushed himself through the cage. He had no way of knowing that the fluttering was a single beat from the fleeting memory of a heart." ~ Neal Shusterman
36. "but laugh, laugh, laugh, because if you ever stop laughing, it might just tear you apart" ~ Neal Shusterman
37. "So is darkness better than a heartfelt lie?" ~ Neal Shusterman
38. "It does, Tennyson, because there's a fine line between confidence and arrogance. There's a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And you're on the wrong side of both lines." ~ Neal Shusterman
39. "Man, Grandma, what big hair you have.""The better to style with, my dear." ~ Neal Shusterman
40. "Which was worse, Risa often wondered--to have tens of thousands of babies that no one wanted, or to silently make them go away before they were even born? On different days Risa had different answers." ~ Neal Shusterman
41. "Never ask how. At that moment, it felt like the wisest advice I had ever gotten." ~ Neal Shusterman
42. "You know," he said, his voice making me feel cold in spite of the heat, "this city can get ahold of you and pull you back no matter how hard you try to climb out. Like a grave." ~ Neal Shusterman
43. "Mom removed all games that remotely suggest violence and death-but Cody's doing a good job of making harmless cartoon characters suffer in fresh and inventive ways." ~ Neal Shusterman
44. "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!" ~ Neal Shusterman
45. "the captain is supposed to go down with the ship" . "unless the first mate knocks him out and throws him in a lifeboat" ~ Neal Shusterman
46. "She smiles at them as they go by and continues to play, making it clear that this furnace of a place, full of planes that cannot fly, is more than it seems. It is a womb of redemption for every Unwind, and fora ll those who fought the Heartland War and lost - which was everybody." ~ Neal Shusterman
47. "Teenage rebellion is for suburban schoolchildren. Get over it." ~ Neal Shusterman
48. "Just as the airplane graveyard was Heaven disguised as Hell, harvest camp is Hell masquerading Heaven." ~ Neal Shusterman
49. "First rule of motherhood, dearie: men are screw-ups. Learn it now and you'll be a whole lot happier." ~ Neal Shusterman
50. "Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us." ~ Neal Shusterman
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