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• 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.

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  Stars, Sky, Tuesday

  Neal Shusterman (2010). “Everwild”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Saws, Dimensions, Blind

  Neal Shusterman (2011). “Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound”, p.829, Simon and Schuster

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• Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

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  War, Believe, Want

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Everfound”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• You are so obtuse!" Brontë says, exasperated. I am calm in my response. "Do you mean stupid, or angular? You need to be more specific with your insults.

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  Stupid, Mean, Needs

  Neal Shusterman (2010). “Bruiser”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• 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.

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  Greatness, Goes On, Useless

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; UnStrung: an Unwind story; UnWholly”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• I was asking if unwinding kills you, or if it leaves you alive somehow. C'mon—it's not like we haven't thought about it." (...) What do you think, Connor?" asks Hayden. "What hap­pens to your soul when you get unwound?" Who says I even got one?" For the sake of argument, let's say you do." Who says I want an argument?

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  Thinking, Soul, Asking

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• 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.

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  Deeds, Firsts, Easy

  Neal Shusterman (2011). “Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Stupid, Games, Said

  Neal Shusterman (2011). “Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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

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  People, Can Do, Horrific

  Neal Shusterman (2011). “Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Loss, Two, Tragedy

  Neal Shusterman (2011). “Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Stupid, Way, Born

  Neal Shusterman (2011). “Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• Roland glares at Connor and Connor glares back. Then he says what he always says at moments like this. "Nice socks." Although Roland doesn't look down right away, it derails him just enough for him to back off. He doesn't check to see if his socks match until he thinks Connor isn't looking. And the moment he does, Connor snickers. Small victories are bet­ter than none.

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  Nice, Thinking, Victory

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray.

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  Hair, Color, Shoes

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnSouled”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Pain, Waiting, Would Be

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• It's strange how we always want other people to feel what we feel. It must be a basic human drive. Misery loves company, right? Or when you see a movie that you love, don't you want to drag all your friends to see it as well? Because it's only good the second time if it's the first time for somebody else—as if their experience somehow resonates inside of you.

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  People, Want, Firsts

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• I imagine the center of the Earth must be a crowded place by now, but perhaps it is the spirits of those of us residing there that keep the Earth alive and green.

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  Alive, Earth, Green

  Neal Shusterman (2011). “Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm scared," he says."I know," says the nurse."I want you all to go to Hell.""That's natural.

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  Nurse, Want, Scared

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• It comes with being sixteen," Mom said. "You teenagers, you go into a cocoon when you turn fifteen and don't come out for years." "So they become butterflies when they finally come out?" my little sister Christina asked. "No," Mom said. "They're still caterpillars, only now they're big fat caterpillars that smell.

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  Mom, Teenager, Butterfly

  Neal Shusterman (2006). “The Schwa was here”

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• The way I see it, truth only looks good when you're looking at it from far away. It's kind of like that beautiful girl you see on the street when you're riding past in the bus... there she is, this amazing girl walking by on the street, and you think if you could only get off this stupid bus and introduce yourself to her, your life would change. The thing is, she's not as perfect as you think, and if you ever got off the bus to introduce yourself, you'd find out... This girl is truth. She's not so pretty, not so nice. But then, once you get to know her, all that stuff doesn't seem to matter.

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  Beautiful, Girl, Nice

  Neal Shusterman’s 2005 BGHB Fiction Award Speech, www.hbook.com. January 5, 2006.

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• Well...you're a martyr and I'm a patron saint-I can't think of anyone better!

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  Thinking, Saint, Martyr

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnWholly”, p.392, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Kids, Government, Knowing

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnWholly”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• Hayden shouts, "To the new Teen Uprising!

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  Uprising

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnWholly”, p.390, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Law, Educated, Nobody Knows

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• Then she offers him a slim but sincere smile, and he reluctantly returns it. It doesn't bridge the gap between them, but at least it marks the spot where the bridge might be built.

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  Bridges, Might, Gaps

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwholly”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you know that if you take the books in an average school library and stretched out all those words into a single line, the line would go all the way around the world? Actually, I made that up, but doesn't it sound like it should be true?

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  Book, School, Average

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