Neal Shusterman
Neal Shusterman
Neal Shustermanis an American writer of young-adult fiction. He won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature for Challenger Deep...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth12 November 1962
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
war hate differences
You see, a conflict always begins with an issue - a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a war, the issue doesn't matter anymore, because now it's about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other.
ships firsts captains
the captain is supposed to go down with the ship" . "unless the first mate knocks him out and throws him in a lifeboat
dream stupid reality
Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.
hero believe true-hero
No true hero ever believes that they are one.
flames two silence
Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.
kind used freaky
Touch is a freaky thing when you're not used to it. It makes you feel all kinds of things.
hurt children pain
Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.
tangled humanity life-is
Either things happen for a reason, or they happen for no reason at all. Either one's life is a thread in a glorious tapestry or humanity is just a hopelessly tangled knot.
care vulnerable cares-about-someone
When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things.
dream reality twists
Dreams can twist your emotions like no reality can.
unprepared
When you live a life without questions, you're unprepared for the questions when they come.
beautiful girl nice
The way I see it, truth only looks good when you're looking at it from far away. It's kind of like that beautiful girl you see on the street when you're riding past in the bus...there she is, this amazing girl walking by on the street, and you think if you could only get off this stupid bus and introduce yourself to her, your life would change. The thing is, she's not as perfect as you think, and if you ever got off the bus to introduce yourself, you'd find out... This girl is truth. She's not so pretty, not so nice. But then, once you get to know her, all that stuff doesn't seem to matter.
race bridges cities
Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem. In fact, a city is nothing more than a solution to a problem, that in turn creates more problems that need more solutions, until towers rise, roads widen, bridges are built, and millions of people are caught up in a mad race to feed the problem-solving, problem-creating frenzy.
grandmother path twisted
My grandmother used to say that twisting paths always cross again," he told her. "And whose paths are more twisted than ours?