Jazmin > Jazmin 's Quotes

“Sometimes it could be the smallest thing that could topple over a whole life, and, in the end, destroy it.”
― Nova Ren Suma, The Walls Around Us

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.”
― Nova Ren Suma, The Walls Around Us

“They decide as soon as they meet you. Ten seconds in. If you’re poor. If you’re brown. If you’re black. If you’ve got an accent. If your skirt’s too short. If your nose is ugly—sorry, Cherie. If you’re chewing gum. If you’re breathing funny. If nobody from your family is there. If you’re any of that? Or all of that? Have a nice life, because you’re out of there.”
― Nova Ren Suma, The Walls Around Us

“I knew that just because people on the outside were free and clean, it didn’t mean they were the good ones.”
― Nova Ren Suma, The Walls Around Us

“Home is where the heart is, and where the hell is, and where the hate is, and where the hopelessness is. Which made Aurora Hills pretty much like home.”
― Nova Ren Suma, The Walls Around Us

“We were gasoline rushing for a lit match. We bared our teeth. Balled fists.”
― Nova Ren Suma, The Walls Around Us

“Life. We'd long known it was cruel.”
― Nova Ren Suma, The Walls Around Us

“Our private tastes in books showed a hint of our secret selves.”
― Nova Ren Suma, The Walls Around Us

“We were alive. I remember it that way. We were still alive, and we couldn't see how close we were to the end.”
― Nova Ren Suma, The Walls Around Us

“Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“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.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“Sure, I can talk like you, but I choose not to, It's like an art, you know? Picasso had to prove to the world he could paint the right way, before he goes putting both eyes on the side of a face... See if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist...You can take that to the grave and dig it up when you need it.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“You can't change laws without first changing human nature.'
-Nurse Greta

You can't change human nature without first changing the law.'
-Nurse Yvonne”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“The sad truth about humanity...is that people believe what they're told. Maybe not the first time, but by the hundredth time, the craziest of ideas just becomes a given.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnWholly

“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.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnWholly

“The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnWholly

“Anger is only our friend when we know its caliber and how to aim it.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnWholly

“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.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnWholly

“How do you judge the brightness of a light when you’re the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnWholly

“You have robbed me, and everyone here, of their purpose. That's not salvation, that's damnation.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnWholly

“Respect doesn't come without a little resentment.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnWholly

“We'll never be ready. So I guess that means we're as ready as we'll ever be.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnWholly

“This is the human way, she thought. On the edge of destruction, at the end of all things, we still dance. And hope.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“..You always have to choose between the path of needles and the path of pins. When a dress is torn, you know, you can just pin it up, or you can take the time to sew it together. That's what it means. The quick and easy way or the painful way that works.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“Do you think that doing the right thing will always be pretty?”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“The problem with martyrs is that they’re all dead”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“In a population of hundreds of millions, such a small number of people is a mere drop in the bucket... but enough drops can make any bucket overflow”
― Neal Shusterman, UnDivided

“Best way to save humanity is to turn the monsters against one another.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnDivided