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 may be responsible for your actions,” Pastor Dan says, "but it's not your fault you weren't emotionally prepared for life out there in the real world.
That was my fault—and the fault of everyone who raised you to be a tithe. We're as guilty as the people who pumped that poison into your blood.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“You...you lost your faith?"
"No...just my convictions. I still very much believe in God- just not a god who condones human tithing."
Lev begins to feel himself choking up with an unexpected flood of feeling, all the emotions that had been building up throughout their talk- throughout the weeks- arriving all at once like a sonic boom.
"I never knew there was a choice.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“If there wasn't unwinding, there'd be fewer surgeons, and more doctors. If there wasn't unwinding, they'd go back to trying to cure diseases instead of just replacing stuff with someone else's.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind