Wen Chen > Wen's Quotes

“Nice socks.”
― 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

“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

“Getting to know someone in blind darkness changes your impression of them.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.”
― Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep

“Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“...the first sign of civilization is always trash.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“I gotta go to the bathroom," Emby mumbles.
"You should have thought of that before you left," says Hayden, putting on his best mother voice. "How many times do we have to tell you? Always use the potty before climbing into a shipping crate.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

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

“What's the point of living if you're going to hate the world? Guard your heart if you have to, but don't shut it away.”
― Neal Shusterman, Bruiser

“No true hero ever believes that they are one.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“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

“The good thing about being explosive is that no one can beat you.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“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 never realize the holes a person leaves behind until you fall into them. ”
― Neal Shusterman, The Dark Side of Nowhere

“Which is worse, Risa often wondered, to have tens of thousands of babies that no one wanted or to silently make then go away before they were even born”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnWholly

“One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“Heaven might shine bright, but so do flames.”
― Neal Shusterman, Everwild

“Please what? the teacher thinks. Please break the law? Please put myself and the school at risk? But, no, that's not it at all. What he's really saying is: Please be a human being. With a life so full of rules and regiments, it's so easy to forget that's what they are. She knows—she sees—how often compassion takes a back seat to expediency.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnWholly

“I'll never understand how a man can live his life
With his finger on the self-destruct button,
Holding it there day after day,
Blinded by an obsession to press it
But lacking the conviction to do even that.”
― Neal Shusterman, Bruiser

“It holds no fear for her now, because the shark has been tamed by the soul of a boy. No--the soul of a man.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“Monster only had the power that you gave them”
― Neal Shusterman, Everlost

“I used to be afraid of dying. Now I’m afraid of not living. There’s a difference. We go through life planning for a future, but sometimes that future never comes.”
― Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep

“When you live a life without questions, you're unprepared for the questions when they come.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnWholly

“Tools are neither demonic nor divine. It’s all about who wields them.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnDivided

“And when the abyss looks into you - and it will - may you look back unflinching.”
― Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep

“My artwork isn't evolving, it's deconstructing, and I don't know why.”
― Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep

“Each day the sea is exactly the same. We seem no closer, and no farther from anything.”
― Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep