Does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? What if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?

— Neal Shusterman

Don't you recognize me, Mary? It's your good friend Allie the Outcast - although it looks like you're the one who's the out-cast now." Then Allie realized something with far too much glee. "Now that you're here - alive and all - there's something I've wanted to do for a very long time." Then Allie reached back, curled her fleshier's right hand into a fist, and swung it toward Mary with all her might. This was one strong fleshier! The punch connected with Mary's eye so hard, that Mary's entire body spun around, and she collapsed into a leopard chair. Allie's knuckles hurt, but it was a good kind of pain." My eye!" wailed Mary. "Oh! My eye.

— Neal Shusterman

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

— Neal Shusterman

Dreams can twist your emotions like no reality can.

— Neal Shusterman

Elasticity is a fundamental principle of perception,

— Neal Shusterman

Everything feels right with the world......and the sad thing is that I know it's a dream. I know it must soon end, and when it do, I will be thrust awake into a place where either I'm broken, or the world is broken.

— Neal Shusterman

First rule of motherhood, Dalai: men are screw-ups. Learn it now and you'll be a lot happier.

— Neal Shusterman

Great tragedies have great consequences. They ripple through the fabric of this world and the next. When the loss is too great for either world to bear, Everlast absorbs the shock, like a cushion between the two.

— Neal Shusterman

Griping is for those without a plan of action...

— Neal Shusterman

Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement.

— Neal Shusterman