Tate Perry

“Time is never of the essence until someone decides that it is.”
― Neal Shusterman, The Toll

“Some things simply made a person feel feminine; other things made a person feel masculine. Wasn’t that true of everyone regardless of gender? Or did binaries deny themselves the things that didn’t fit the mold? Well, regardless, Jerico found the faux pas and overcompensations more humorous than anything else.”
― Neal Shusterman, The Toll

“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

“They conformed so closely to their culture of nonconformity that there was a uniformity to them, defeating the whole purpose”
― Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead