Red Rider's Hood Quotes

“If you have to ask then you don't deserve an answer.”
― Neal Shusterman, Red Rider's Hood

“Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.”
― Neal Shusterman, Red Rider's Hood

“We're this big melting pot, but someone turned up the heat too high, and the stew started to burn. Gangs, crime, fights, and fear are now a regular part of our local stew.”
― Neal Shusterman, Red Rider's Hood

“I smell fear," he said with a quiet intensity. "But not nearly enough.”
― Neal Shusterman, Red Rider's Hood

“Man, Grandma, what big hair you have."
"The better to style with, my dear.”
― Neal Shusterman, Red Rider's Hood

“Did you ever get the feeling that everything was too perfect? Like the moment was so good that something had to be wrong? Kind of like the way a fish sees that bright, shiny lure just before it chomps down and gets hauled out of water to become someone's lunch.”
― Neal Shusterman, Red Rider's Hood

“I almost told her everything right then. I wanted to tell her about the Wolves, and how I was supposed to hate them, but when you spend your days with evil, some of it is bound to soak into your clothes, like cigar smoke in a closed room.”
― Neal Shusterman, Red Rider's Hood

“It made my blood boil so hot, my brain stopped working right.”
― Neal Shusterman, Red Rider's Hood

“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, Red Rider's Hood

“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, Red Rider's Hood

“Live by your impulses, and you'll be just like them. You're better than that, aren't you, Red?”
― Neal Shusterman, Red Rider's Hood

“Makes sense, the earth is quick to consume the flesh of things that ain't natural.”
― Neal Shusterman, Red Rider's Hood

“There are worse things than being robbed..." I could smell the sick old-meat stench on his breath, like he really had eaten my grandmother. "...worse things than dyin' even. You be a good boy, Little Red, and maybe you'll get to live awhile. Maybe you'll get to die in your own natural time.”
― Neal Shusterman, Red Rider's Hood

“Which side was I on? There was no time to search for answers. All I could do now was ride on a werewolf's back, toward a destiny as hidden as the dark side of the moon.”
― Neal Shusterman, Red Rider's Hood

“You can't imagine what it's like to be torn between darkness and light- to be a traitor no matter what move you make. If my grandmother and Marissa died tonight, it would be because I had stayed in the darkness too long, flirting with the idea of being Cedric's consigliere. If that happened, I could never live with myself- but if Cedric gave me the bite as he planned, I would be forced to live with it forever. That was the worst hell I could imagine.”
― Neal Shusterman, Red Rider's Hood

“Little Red, Little Red, what's in the chip bag, Little Red?"
And in the same singsong voice I answered, "Nothing at all, Nothing at all, Nothing at all but your grandpa's head.”
― Neal Shusterman, Red Rider's Hood

“Maybe that had been his plan all along, or maybe not. But one thing's for certain- now that I had said it, it was his plan.”
― Neal Shusterman, Red Rider's Hood

“Good thing about bad rubbish is you can make the stench go away just by covering it up. It never comes back as long as you keep a tight lid on it.”
― Neal Shusterman, Red Rider's Hood

“You tell your brother he's gonna pay for that car in silver.”
― Neal Shusterman, Red Rider's Hood

“(B)ut when you spend your days with evil, some of it is bound to soak into your clothes, like cigar smoke in a closed room.”
― Neal Shusterman, Red Rider's Hood