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    Barbara Kingsolver
    “There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.”
    ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees
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    Neal Shusterman
    “Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled
    tags: attitude, inspirational, life-lessons
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    Neal Shusterman
    “No true hero ever believes that they are one.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled
    tags: calder, elina, garrity, hero, lev, neal-shusterman, unsouled
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    Neal Shusterman
    “One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled
    tags: hope, inspirational, neal-shusterman, sonia-rheinschild, unsouled, unwind
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    Neal Shusterman
    “Cowards hide [...] but warriors lie and wait [...] the only difference is whether you're motivated by fear or purpose.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled
    tags: connor, coward, elina, fear, lassiter, lev, shusterman, unsouled, unwind, warrior
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    Neal Shusterman
    “You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled
    tags: existence, inspirational, self-love, understanding, young-adult
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    Neal Shusterman
    “Good in Crisis; Sucks at Normal.’ That about sums up my whole life, doesn’t it?”
    ― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled
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    Neal Shusterman
    “Incredible. It never ceases to amaze Starkey how far society will go to protect the children it loves and to discard the ones it doesn’t.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled
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    Neal Shusterman
    “A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled
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    Neal Shusterman
    “Sometimes, Lev, I just want to smack you."
    "You already hit him with a car.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled
    tags: connor, grace, lev, lmaof
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  • #11
    Neal Shusterman
    “Pain is weakness leaving the body.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled
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    Neal Shusterman
    “Talking about someone in the third person is rude." Cam tells her coolly.
    "Really?" Says Connor. "When you're a hundred people, wouldn't third person be a compliment?”
    ― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled
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    Neal Shusterman
    “Wars have a way reinventing people. And making too many things disappear.

    -Sonia”
    ― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled
    tags: connor, grace, risa, sonia, unsouled
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    Neal Shusterman
    “They have elevated him on a pedestal, but...a pedestal is nothing more than an elegant cage. No walls, no locks, but unless one has wings to fly away, one is trapped. A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled
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    Neal Shusterman
    “definition. How can she not see that when you are defined, you lose the ability to define yourself?”
    ― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled
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    Neal Shusterman
    “Please give me a single reason why I shouldn't hurl myself beneath the wheels of that bus.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled
    tags: fantasy, young-adult
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    Neal Shusterman
    “If you come anywhere near my daughter, I will see to it that you are taken apart piece by bloody piece. Do I make myself clear?"
    "Any clearer," says Cam, "and you'd be invisible.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled
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    Neal Shusterman
    “Cam knows this is not going to be a good day the moment he sees the chain saw.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled
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    Neal Shusterman
    “Really?" Risa said, disgusted. "'What do we have here?' Is that your best line? If you're going to attack a defenseless girl in an alley, at least try not to be cliché about it.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled
    tags: alleyway, cliché, neal-shusterman, risa, unsouled
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    Neal Shusterman
    “I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray.”
    ― neal shusterman, UnSouled
    tags: audrey, black, gray, neal-shusterman, problems, risa, solutions, unsouled, women
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    Neal Shusterman
    “a true leader never puts his ego ahead of his assets.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled
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    Neal Shusterman
    “I was actually being sincere,” Connor admits. “But I’m happy to insult you, if that’s what you want.”
    ― neal shusterman, UnSouled
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    Neal Shusterman
    “I'd never want a piece of someone else's brain," Kele had said. "I mean, you don't know where it's been.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled
    tags: kele
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    Neal Shusterman
    “Love the ponytail," Connor says, pointing at his hair.
    Lev shrugs. "It's just because my hair is so tatted. But maybe I'll keep it."
    "Don't," Connor tells him. "I lied. I hate it.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled
    tags: connor-lassiter, lev-calder, ponytail
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    Neal Shusterman
    “unwinding is, by law, painless.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled
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    Neal Shusterman
    “And she will restore to him his soul.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled
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  • #27
    Neal Shusterman
    “Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, Unwind
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    Neal Shusterman
    “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
    tags: oversimplification
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  • #29
    Neal Shusterman
    “I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, Unwind
    tags: ambition, failure, irony, optimism
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  • #30
    Neal Shusterman
    “...One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, Unwind
    tags: human-nature
    768 likes



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