Frases de Neal Shusterman

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“En un mundo perfecto todas las madres querrían a sus bebés y los extraños abrirían sus puertas a los no amados. En un mundo perfecto todo sería blanco o negro, bueno o malo, y todos sabrían la diferencia. Pero este no es un mundo perfecto. El problema es la gente que piensa que lo es”

“Estúpidos sueños. Incluso los buenos son malos, porque te recuerdan hasta qué punto es mala la realidad.”

“Mira a Connor, que no parece preocuparse por dónde se sienta. No lo parece. Esa es la palabra clave con Connor. Se le da extremadamente bien ocultar lo que pasa en ese espacio desconcertante que va de una oreja suya a la otra.”

“Esa es la rabia que lo embarga cuando no hay nadie mirándolo.”

“Tal vez, piensa Risa, haya un modo de hacer que esta vida funcione. O tal vez no lo haya. Pero, en aquel momento, no hay nada más maravilloso que perderse en los sonidos de la música. Ya se le había olvidado lo delicioso que resultaba.”

“Les diría que si están huyendo, que huyan, porque tienen todo el derecho a intentar sobrevivir. Pero que no importa lo que les suceda, porque su vida tendrá sentido.”

“Tú eres bueno en las grandes dificultades, y eres un capullo en la vida normal.”

“Es sorprendente que algo tan simple como un beso pueda vencer la peor de las preocupaciones.”

“Si existieran mas donantes de organos, la desconexion jamas hubiera existido.”

“Cuando uno no puede ganar, lo mejor es que haga un chiste de la derrota.”

“¡Me prometiste contener ese genio!
-Te equivocas: tú me lo pediste, y yo me negué.”

“No son las palabras, ¡es lo que implica!”

“Aunque ella debe saber lo que está pasando, no dice nada, sólo deja la cabeza en su hombro mientras las lágrimas de él le caen en el pelo.”

“Pero de cada buena intención sale un camino hacia el infierno.”

“No me gustan los niños.
-Tampoco te gustan mucho los adultos. Ni nadie que esté entre unos y otros.”

“Tools are neither demonic nor divine. It’s all about who wields them.”

“She plays music to heal herself, but nothing can heal her brokenness.”

“Walls don't fall without effort.”

“I used to be afraid of dying. Now I’m afraid of not living. There’s a difference. We go through life planning for a future, but sometimes that future never comes.”

“Best way to save humanity is to turn the monsters against one another.”

“He does not deserve this. He has done many things, not all good, but he does not deserve this. And he never did get his priest.”

“Statistically speaking, there's a better chance that some part of me will go on to greatness somewhere in the world. I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.”

“They signed the unwind order just to spite each other, but laugh, laugh, laugh, Hayden, because if you ever stop laughing, it might just tear you apart worse than a Chop Shop.”

“In this world, there is a fine line between enlightenment and brain damage.”

“You have robbed me, and everyone here, of their purpose. That's not salvation, that's damnation.”

“You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.”

“Already Roland feels his limbs starting to go numb. He swallows hard.
"I hate this. I hate you. I hate all of you."
"I understand.”

“You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees a bottomless pit in yours.”

“This book is so interesting. I always wonder what's going to happen next.”

“I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.”

“Great tragedies have great consequences. They ripple through the fabric of this world and the next. When the loss is too great for either world to bear, Everlost absorbs the shock, like a cushion between the two.”

“Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?"
Allie considered this. "Meaning?"
"Meaning, we might be able to shake things up a little, and find a way to come up heads."
"Or tails," suggested Allie.
"What are youabout?" said Lief.
"Life and death.”

“But now we've finally taken full possession of what is rightfully ours, because everyone must feel their own pain--and as awful as that is, it's also wonderful.”

“Beautiful is dangerous.”

“Respect doesn't come without a little resentment.”

“Small victories are bet­ter than none.”

“We'll never be ready. So I guess that means we're as ready as we'll ever be.”

“Love turns a heart to crystal… Much more valuable, but much more fragile.”

“They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves.”

“It's a curse to see all that might happen but never know what will.”

“… facts never prevent the ignorant from jerking their knees into the groin of science.”

“This game's stupid," said Lief. "Who the heck is Zelda, anyway?”

“Adulthood can do the most horrific things to the best of people.”

“Good in Crisis; Sucks at Normal.’ That about sums up my whole life, doesn’t it?”