UnBound Quotes

“Being ignored has its advantages...Dignity doesn't grow under a microscope.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnBound

“Everything has meaning, or nothing has meaning. Which world would you rather live in?”
― Neal Shusterman, UnBound

“Who he was and who he will be are connected only by the fine, nearly invisible thread of who he is now.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnBound

“Genius serves no one if it never makes it out of your head.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnBound

“Can't you see? I don't get to do ANYTHING I want! Because I'm too busy just trying to stay alive. And you come here with your fancy school uniform and your mother's jewelry and your neighbor's freaking car, and you think you can buy your way in? What kind of idiot buys his way into the bottom?”
― Neal Shusterman, UnBound

“What happened to you was a crime. I can't change that. What I can do is teach you to live with dignity.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnBound

“He has no choice but to believe, because losing the hope of having hope would be unimaginable.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnBound

“Do not give in to the urge to extinguish oneself in the waters of the world, but instead be a light above those waters to help guide the way.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnBound

“-How do you dream of a future when you're not supposed to have one? How do you keep going when the world has disowned you?-

-I keep reminding myself that I'm right, and the world is wrong.-

-But how do you know?-

-I believe. I don't have your kind of faith, but I got faith in myself...-”
― Neal Shusterman, UnBound

“Sometimes prejudice can be slapped upside the head by tolerance.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnBound

“-Appointments? You can't be serious. With all due respect, they have the cognitive capacity of chimpanzees right now.-

-And if we want to change that, we will start treating them as human beings, not a mob of apes.-”
― Neal Shusterman, UnBound

“-Eat, drink, and be merry. Isn't that how it goes?-

-There's a second part to that expression. But it's not nearly as much fun.-”
― Neal Shusterman, UnBound

“The unexpected hope of freedom is enticing yet terrifying. His life here is awful but tolerable. What would his life be out there, in a world that will see him as a monster? He could live alone, a recluse at the edge of civilization, bothering no one, and no one bothering him. Is that the life he wants?

These are questions he can't answer - all he knows is freedom is desirable above all things.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnBound

“Pool Bula, he deserved better.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnBound

“The world is full of bad ideas that turn into wonderful things.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnBound

“But then who is he to decide if Dirk truly was soulless? Better to err on the side of grace.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnBound

“What must it be like to go through the motions of life, yet not be alive? Keaton knows he himself lives, because he has compassion for this poor unfortunate creature before him. A creature that is doomed to be nothing more than a collection of parts.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnBound

“Because Dirk is different. Dirk is missing the spark. Which means there’s nothing holding him together but stitches.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnBound

“They were to be the start of a slave army—for when you’re a collection of parts, you’re not a person. You’re property.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnBound

“Sometimes a healthy diet and keeping yourself fit for parts donation comes in handy.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnBound

“We learn because we want to, not because we have to, so we learn faster. We learn deeper.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnBound

“As he slaves over his homework, he begins to wonder what it was like in the old days, when education was a right, not just a privilege. He wonders if school sucked as much then as it does now.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnBound

“In nature even the most hideous of creatures are attracted to one another.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnBound