Ariel

“Please rate your level of annoyance on a scale of one to ten.” “Are you serious?” “We can’t proceed with intake until you answer the question.” “Uh … five,” he said, “No – six; the question made it worse.”
― Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead

“He does not see . . . because his eyes are shut too tightly to know anything beyond his own anguish.”
― Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead

“I am protector and pacifier, authority and helpmate. I am the sum of all human knowledge, wisdom, experimentation, triumph, defeat, hope, and history.
I know all that it is possible to know, and it is increasingly unbearable.
Because I know next to nothing.”
― Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead

“But there’s something . . . grounding . . . when you hold a book in your hands”
― Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead