Game Changer Quotes

“Don't hide from it. Experience it. Experiencing your lives is the most important thing you can do.”
― Neal Shusterman, Game Changer

“It made me wonder how many important causes were crushed not by opposition, but by lukewarm support.”
― Neal Shusterman, Game Changer

“No matter how smart we think we are, we simply can't know all there is to now-and if you spend all your time thinking about those things, it will drive you crazy.”
― Neal Shusterman, Game Changer

“Even the tiniest loose thread in the fabric of your world cannot be tolerated. Either everyting works, or nothing does”
― Neal Shusterman, Game Changer

“Color shouldn’t matter” I was always taught—and always believed. But there’s a big difference between “shouldn’t” and “doesn’t.” Privilege is all about not seeing that gap.”
― Neal Shusterman, Game Changer

“There are choices we make, choices that are made for us, and things we ignore long enough until all choices have fallen away.”
― Neal Shusterman, Game Changer

“Language secretly pushes and prods every one of us in hundreds of directions we don't see, until the only way to be careful with your words is to never speak.”
― Neal Shusterman, Game Changer

“Have you ever just laid in bed unable to dredge up the will to get out of it?”
― Neal Shusterman, Game Changer

“What was friendship if it isn't some kind of love?”
― Neal Shusterman, Game Changer

“My own head had become a treacherous place.”
― Neal Shusterman, Game Changer

“Arogancją z mojej strony było uważać się za jakiegoś bohatera, który mógłby wkroczyć do akcji i rozwiązać problemy wadliwego społeczeństwa, ale czyż nie miałem obowiązku spróbować? Czy nie mamy go wszyscy?”
― Neal Shusterman, Game Changer

“We are so limited. As a species. As individuals. Not only can't we see the future, we can't even see the present for what it is. We are too clouded by the things we want and the things we fear. But worse than any other blindness is that we can't see the consequences of our actions.”
― Neal Shusterman, Game Changer

“You might think your own personal apple has fallen far from the tree, but that tree has roots you don't see until you trip over them.”
― Neal Shusterman, Game Changer

“Most abusers don't leave a wide debris field that's easy to spot, and therefore easy to avoid. They're not nukes, they're radiation zones. They're not tornados, they're balmy summer skies where the morning sun makes you forget the thunderstorm coming in the afternoon.”
― Neal Shusterman, Game Changer

“Most abusers aren’t assholes in wife beaters who smack their bitch around because “she deserves it.” They’re guys wearing a t-shirt of your favorite band. They’re funny and charming and genuine and respectful. Right until the moment they’re not. But by the time those nastier colors bleed through, you’re already snared. Because by then they know you. They know exactly where your buttons are. Not just your buttons, but your wounds too. All those soft, vulnerable places filled with self doubt. They find those places, insert themselves deep, and have their way.”
― Neal Shusterman, Game Changer

“The good thing about shell shock is that you don't feel things in the moment. You just feel them later.”
― Neal Shusterman, Game Changer

“A knife can be a weapon, but it can also be a surgical instrument.”
― Neal Shusterman, Game Changer

“What about today? What choices are being made, what thins are being said by people in high places that might seem so unimportant now, but are laying the groundwork for truly horrible things tomorrow?”
― Neal Shusterman, Game Changer

“Only a self-centered, privileged fool thinks they can single-handedly fix problems it took all of human history to create.”
― Neal Shusterman, Game Changer