Ganon Ison > Ganon's Quotes

“can’t see why I should concern myself with humankind at all.”
― Neal Shusterman, The Toll

“We never know what choices will lead to defining moments in our lives. A glance to the left instead of right could define who we meet and who passes us by. Our life path can be determined by a single phone call we make, or neglect to make.”
― Neal Shusterman, The Toll

“So, if you're asking me if it's possible for you to make errors in judgement, the answer is yes. You make errors all the time... as does every other human being who has ever lived. Error is an intrinsic part of the human condition - and it is something I deeply love about humankind.”
― Neal Shusterman, The Toll

“I’ve seen a greater share of wonders, vast
And small, than most have done. My peace is made;
My breathing slows. I could not ask for more.
To reach beyond the stuff of day-to-day
Is worth this life of mine. Our kind is meant
To search and seek among the outer bounds,
And when we land upon a distant shore,
To seek another yet farther still. Enough.
The silence grows. My strength has fled, and Sol
Become a faded gleam, and now I wait,
A Viking laid to rest atop his ship.
Though fire won’t send me off, but cold and ice,
And forever shall I drift alone.
No king of old had such a stately bier,
Adorned with metals dark and grey, nor such
A hoard of gems to grace his somber tomb.
I check my straps; I cross my arms, prepare
Myself to once again venture into the
Unknown, content to face my end and pass
Beyond this mortal realm, content to hold
And wait and here to sleep—
To sleep in a sea of stars.
—THE FARTHEST SHORE 48–70
HARROW GLANTZER”
― Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

“The hardest lesson in life is learning to accept that there are some things we can't change." Falcone paused, his eyes hard and glittering.
[...]
Then he unbuttoned the cuffs on his shirt and rolled back his sleeves to expose the melted surface of his forearms. He held them up for Kira to see.
"Why do you think I keep these scars?"
"Because you feel guilty over ..."
"No," Falcone said harshly.
Then, in a gentler tone, "No. I keep them to remind me of what I can survive. Of what I have survived. If I'm having a rough time, I look at my arms and then I know I'll get through whatever problem I'm dealing with. Life's not gonna break me. It can't break me. It might kill me, but nothing it throws at me is gonna make me give up.”
― Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

“There's no such thing as safety. Only degrees of risk.”
― Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

“Have you ever considered the fact that everything we are originates from the remnants of stars that once exploded?” Jorrus said, “Vita ex pulvis.” “We are made from the dust of dead stars.”
― Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

“I was in fractures before. I am in fractures now. But the pieces still form the same broken picture.”
― Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

“She was unsurprised to see that the war had resulted in an unprecedented drawing together of humanity. Even the Zarians had put aside their differences with the League in order to join forces against their shared enemies. What was the point of arguing amongst yourselves if the monsters in the dark were attacking?”
― Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

“Names are powerful things; you should be careful whom you share yours with. You never know when a person might turn your name against you.”
― Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

“Logic only took you so far. Sometimes the cure to the dark was to find another flame burning bright.”
― Christopher Paolini, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

“Everything's science fiction until someone makes it science fact.”
― Marie Lu, Warcross

“It is hard to describe loss to someone who has never experienced it, impossible to explain all the ways it changes you. But for those who have, not a single word is needed.”
― Marie Lu, Warcross

“When you refuse to ask for help, it tells others that they also shouldn’t ask for help from you. That you look down on them for needing your help. That you like feeling superior to them. It’s an insult, Emi, to your friends and peers. So don’t be like that. Let us in.”
― Marie Lu, Warcross

“You have to learn to look at the whole of something, not just the parts.”
― Marie Lu, Warcross

“I won't tell you what to look for, because if I do, you'll miss the things you would intuitively find.”
― Neal Shusterman, The Toll

“Because believing in nothing is still believing in something - and only by reaching eternity will anyone know the truth of it all.”
― Neal Shusterman, The Toll

“She supposed it must always be this way; once the unthinkable settles into being the norm you become numb to it. She never wanted to be that numb.”
― Neal Shusterman, The Toll

“The Thunderhead had no arms to embrace. Even so, it could feel the beat of Greyson’s heart and the precise temperature of his body as if it were right beside him. To lose that would be a cause of immeasurable sorrow. And so night after night, the Thunderhead silently monitored Greyson in every way it could. Because monitoring was the closest it could come to embracing.”
― Neal Shusterman, The Toll

“the darkest of deeds can be hidden beneath shining armor that claims to protect the greater good.”
― Neal Shusterman, The Toll

“You can’t expose a lie without first shattering the will to believe it. That is why leading people to truth is so much more effective than merely telling them.”
― Neal Shusterman, The Toll

“I like the idea of communication tethering you to a single spot," Tenkamenin told Anastasia.
"It forces you to give every conversation the attention it deserves.”
― Neal Shusterman, The Toll

“My friend, life can often be most brutal and unfair. Death is the same.”
― Neal Shusterman, The Toll

“People are vessels,” Jeri had said to her. “They hold whatever’s poured into them.”
― Neal Shusterman, The Toll

“Flames are strange things, Jeri said. Enticing, comforting, and yet the most dangerous force there is.”
― Neal Shusterman, The Toll

“I don't forgive him-I merely understand him.”
― Neal Shusterman, The Toll

“Correction must be about lifting one up from one's poor choices and prior deeds. As long as remorse is sincere, and one is willing to make recompense, there is no purpose to suffering.”
― Neal Shusterman, The Toll

“The dead do not measure the passage of time. A minute, an hour, a century, are all same to them. Nine million years could pass- one named for every species on Earth- and yet it would be no different from a single revolution around the sun. They do not feel the heat of flames, or the cold of space. They do not suffer the mourning of loved ones left behind, or carry the anger for all the things they had yet to do. They are not at peace, nor are they in turmoil. They are not anything but gone. Their next stop is infinity, and the mysteries that might wait there. The dead have nothing left to them but a silent faith in that unknowable infinity-even if theirs is a belief that nothing waits but an infinity of infinities. Because believing in nothing is still believing in something- and only by reaching eternity will anyone know the truth of it all.”
― Neal Shusterman, The Toll

“We’re exploring the possibility of building a wall to stem the exodus.” “Don’t be ridiculous,” Goddard said. “Only idiots build walls.”
― Neal Shusterman, The Toll

“have found that building a sandbox around a domineering child, then allowing that child to preside over it, frees the adults to do the real work.”
― Neal Shusterman, The Toll