Curlotte

“You're like a salmon swimming upstream," Lev offers. “It's inside you to do it. And it's inside me to help you get there.”
“Salmon.” Cy looks thoughtful. “I once saw this poster about a salmon. It was jumping up this waterfall, see? But there was a bear at the top, and the fish, it was jumping right into the bear's mouth. The caption beneath— it was supposed to be funny—said, The journey of a thousand miles sometimes ends very, very badly.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“You Unwinds are all the same.
You think that because no one loves you, then you can't love anyone.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“A person don't got a soul until that person is loved.
If a mother loves her baby--wants her baby--it's got a soul from the moment she knows it's there.
The moment you're loved, that's when you got your soul.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“Just because the law says it, that doesn't make it true.”
"Yeah, well, just because the law says it, that doesn't make it false, either.
It's only the law because a whole lot of people thought about it, and decided it made sense.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind