UnSouled Quotes

“Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“No true hero ever believes that they are one.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“Cowards hide [...] but warriors lie and wait [...] the only difference is whether you're motivated by fear or purpose.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“Good in Crisis; Sucks at Normal.’ That about sums up my whole life, doesn’t it?”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“Sometimes, Lev, I just want to smack you."
"You already hit him with a car.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“She idly wonders which is crueler, man or nature. She determines it must be man. Nature has no remorse, but neither does it have malice.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“Incredible. It never ceases to amaze Starkey how far society will go to protect the children it loves and to discard the ones it doesn’t.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“(B)ut when the time is right and the winds begin to change, even the deadest of dreams can be resurrected.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“They have elevated him on a pedestal, but...a pedestal is nothing more than an elegant cage. No walls, no locks, but unless one has wings to fly away, one is trapped. A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“Talking about someone in the third person is rude." Cam tells her coolly.
"Really?" Says Connor. "When you're a hundred people, wouldn't third person be a compliment?”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“Pain is weakness leaving the body.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“definition. How can she not see that when you are defined, you lose the ability to define yourself?”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“Love the ponytail," Connor says, pointing at his hair.
Lev shrugs. "It's just because my hair is so tatted. But maybe I'll keep it."
"Don't," Connor tells him. "I lied. I hate it.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“Wars have a way reinventing people. And making too many things disappear.

-Sonia”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“Cam knows this is not going to be a good day the moment he sees the chain saw.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“You must stop these reckless surrenders to your momentary moods.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“Please give me a single reason why I shouldn't hurl myself beneath the wheels of that bus.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“They are not people--they are ideas. They are just extensions of the enemy.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“Do we exist because others perceive our existence, or is, indeed, our own affirmation enough?”
― 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

“Really?" Risa said, disgusted. "'What do we have here?' Is that your best line? If you're going to attack a defenseless girl in an alley, at least try not to be cliché about it.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“If you come anywhere near my daughter, I will see to it that you are taken apart piece by bloody piece. Do I make myself clear?"
"Any clearer," says Cam, "and you'd be invisible.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“But birthdays are random... Defining one's life by the day one was cut from an umbilical cord is completely arbitrary.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“a true leader never puts his ego ahead of his assets.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“But life doesn’t end,” the smiling proponents of unwinding all insist. “It just transforms. We like to call it ‘living in a divided state.’ ”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“Luck, however, is too dumb to remain consistent”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“The exploration of possibility has always been the realm of science. The true scientist leave practical application to others.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled