Frases de Neal Shusterman página 4

“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.”

Unwind

“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.”

Unwind

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

UnSouled

“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.”

UnSouled

“No son los mejores sitios del mundo, ¿verdad? Tienes que luchar para que sepan que estás ahí; si no, vives una vida de mera adecuación, que es lo peor que hay.”

UnWholly

Frases de vida de Neal Shusterman

“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.”

“No me pareces espantoso. Es simplemente que no hay modo de medirte. Es como contemplar un Picasso y tratar de decidir si la mujer del cuardo es guapa o fea. Uno no lo sabe, pero no puede dejar de mirarla.
-Me ves como una obra de arte. Eso me parece bien.
-Sí, bueno… pero nunca me ha gustado Picasso.”

UnSouled

Neal Shusterman Frases y Citas

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

UnWholly

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

Unwind

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

Unwind

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

UnSouled

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

UnSouled

“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.”

UnWholly

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

UnWholly

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

UnSouled

“What can fingerprints mean when they’re not necessarily yours?”

UnSouled

Neal Shusterman: Frases en inglés

“Incredible. It never ceases to amaze Starkey how far society will go to protect the children it loves and to discard the ones it doesn’t.”

Neal Shusterman libro Unwind

Fuente: Unwind

“History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.”

Fuente: UnSouled

“They all think medicine should be magic, and they become mad at me when it's not.”

Fuente: UnWholly

“Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement.”

Fuente: Challenger Deep

“Suddenly it was obvious to Connor why they don't teach it. Once education was restructured and corporatized, they didn't want kids knowing how close they came to toppling the government. They didn't want kids to know how much power they really had.”

Fuente: Bruiser

“When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things.”

Fuente: UnWholly

“A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.”

Fuente: Bruiser

“But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is. -Connor”

Fuente: UnSouled

“The only thing you have for measuring what's real is your mind… so what happens when your mind becomes a pathological liar?”

Neal Shusterman libro Unwind

Fuente: Unwind

“So," says Lev, as casually as he can, "you wanna dance?" "Do you believe in the end of the world?" she responds. Lev shrugs. "I don't know. Why?" "Because the day after that is when I'll dance with you.”

Fuente: Challenger Deep

“Everything feels right with the world…
… and the sad thing is that I know it's a dream. I know it must soon end, and when it does I will be thrust awake into a place where either I'm broken, or the world is broken.”

Fuente: UnWholly

“His life has been like a ballpark, hasn't it? All lines, structure, and rules, never changing. But now he's been hit over the wall into unknown territory.”

Fuente: Challenger Deep

“Lord, if what I'm doing is wrong, then by all means strike me down. Otherwise set me free.”

Neal Shusterman libro Unwind

Fuente: Unwind

“… survival is a dance between our needs and our consciences.”

Fuente: UnWholly

“Love, Allie concluded, wasn't blind, it simply saw alternate dimensions.”

Fuente: UnDivided

“I think all young women are cursed with a streak of unrelenting foolishness, and all young men are cursed with a streak of absolute stupidity.”

Neal Shusterman libro Everfound

Fuente: Everfound

“Sometimes, Lev, I just want to smack you."
"You already hit him with a car.”

Neal Shusterman libro Scythe

Fuente: Scythe

“This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.”

Fuente: UnSouled

“Hole…" He grips Risa's hand tighter. "Hole, Risa, hole…" And she smiles "Yes, Connor," she says. "You're whole. You're finally whole.”

Neal Shusterman libro Everlost

Fuente: Everlost

“The thing was, if I had found a way to escape- even for just a little while- I knew the pain would be there waiting for me when I got back.”

Fuente: UnDivided

“There are mysteries in Everlost. Some of them are wonderful, and others scary. They should all be explored, though- perhaps that's why we're here: to experience the good and the bad that Everlost has to offer.”

Fuente: Bruiser

“In a population of hundreds of millions, such a small number of people is a mere drop in the bucket… but enough drops can make any bucket overflow”

Neal Shusterman libro Everlost

Fuente: Everlost

“It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely.”

Fuente: UnDivided

“He's become like that briefcase in the ground-full of gems yet void of light, so nothing sparkles, nothing shines.”

Neal Shusterman libro Everwild

Fuente: Everwild

“He also keeps his silence when Bible passages become shredded to justify unwinding, and kids start to see the face of God in the fragments.”

Neal Shusterman libro Unwind

Fuente: Unwind

“What? Were you born stupid, or did you just die that way?”

Neal Shusterman libro Unwind

Fuente: Unwind

“You may feel a tugging sensation near your ankles.”

Neal Shusterman libro Everlost

Fuente: Everlost

“How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?"
"They do it all the time," says Hayden. "That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.”

Neal Shusterman libro Unwind

Fuente: Unwind

“On a sunny Tuesday - for it seems so many awful things happen on a Tuesday - six astronauts and one schoolteacher attempted to pierce the sky. Instead they touched the stars.”

Neal Shusterman libro Unwind

Fuente: Unwind