maggie

“A successful lie is not fueled by the liar; it is fueled by the willingness of the listener to believe. You can’t expose a lie without first shattering the will to believe it.”
― Neal Shusterman, The Toll

“If you want to understand a person, peer at his heart through the window of his prejudices and assumptions.”
― Joan He, Descendant of the Crane

“Death must exist for life to have meaning.”
― Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead

“As a kid you idolize your parents. You think they're perfect, because they're the yardstick by which you measure the rest of the world, and yourself. Then as a teenager they just piss you off, because you realize that not only are they not perfect, but they may be even a little more screwed up than you. But there's that moment when you realize they're not superheroes, or villains. They're painfully, unforgivably human. The question is, can you forgive them for being human anyway?”
― Neal Shusterman, Dry