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I'm Switzerland; neutral as can be, and also with great chocolate.

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Chocolate, Switzerland

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How much do you know about the Heartland War?' Connor shrugs. 'It was the last chapter in our history textbook, but we had state testing, so we never got to it.

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War, Textbooks, Lasts

Neal Shusterman (2013). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; Unstrung: an Unwind Story; Unwholly”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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The living do not see eternity, just as they don't see Everlost, but they sense both in ways that they don't even know. They don't feel the Everlost barrier set across the Mississippi River, and yet no one had ever dared to draw city boundaries that straddle both sides of its waters. The living do not see Afterlights, and yet everyone has had times when they've felt a presence near them - sometimes comforting, sometimes not - but always strong enough to make one turn around and look over one's shoulder.

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Strong, Rivers, Cities

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I don't know what happens to our consciousness when we're unwound," says Connor. "I don't even know when that consciousness starts. But I do know this." He pauses to make sure all of them are listening. "We have a right to our lives!" The kids go wild. "We have a right to choose what happens to our bodies!" The cheers reach fever pitch. "We deserve a world where both those things are possible— and it's our job to help make that world.

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Jobs, Cheer, Kids

Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.333, Simon and Schuster

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On a hairpin turn, above the dead forest, on no day in particular, a white Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur of gray.

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White, Black, Forests

Neal Shusterman (2011). “Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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...if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened...but people like to keep what's theirs, even after they're dead.

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People, Donors, Organ Donor

Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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I'm tired of eating your family's lousy, tasteless recipes," Dad said. "Tasteless recipes? My grandmother's rolling in her grave!" "It's from indigestion.

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Dad, Tired, Grandmother

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

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Normally Connor would walk away from a conversation like this. His life is about tangibles: things you can see, hear and touch. God, souls, and all that has always been like a secret in a black box he couldn't see into, so it was easier just to leave it alone. Only now, he's inside the black box.

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Soul, Black, Secret

Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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They meet in the girls' bathroom. The last time they were forced to meet in a place like this, they took separate, isolated stalls. Now they share one. They hold each other in the tight space, making no excuses for it. There's no time left in their lives for games, or for awkwardness, or for pretending they don't care about each others, and so they kiss as if they've done it forever. As if it is as crucial as the need for oxygen.

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Girl, Kissing, Oxygen

Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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Kids, Silence, Faces

Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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Would you rather die, or be unwound?

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Dies

Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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The woman wears a floral print blouse with lots of leaves and pink flowers. Risa would like to attack her with a weed whacker.

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Weed, Flower, Blouses

Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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We can lie to ourselves, saying we believe one thing, and sometimes we convince other's it's true, with the hope that by convincing others, we can convince ourselves. Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

Neal Shusterman

War, Lying, Believe

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The kiss was the definition of perfect. True, it lacked the heat, the passion, the breathlessness of the living-world kiss she had given Milos, but this had something greater. More than a flash of fire, it had an unbreakable, perhaps eternal bond of connection. Mikey had transformed back into himself by the end of the kiss, and the moment their lips parted he knew, as he should have known long, long ago, that no one - not Milos, not another Afterlight, not anyone in any world - could ever come between him and Allie, from now until the day they met their maker.

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Passion, Kissing, Fire

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What do you do with a textbook case when no one's written the textbook?

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Textbooks, Cases, Written

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Eventually your body will learn the alliances it has to make with itself,' Kenny had said - as if Cam was a factory full of strike-prone workers, or worse, a clutch of slaves forced into unwanted labor.

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Alliances, Body, Slave

Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; UnStrung: an Unwind story; UnWholly”, p.629, Simon and Schuster

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Teenage rebellion is for suburban schoolchildren. Get over it.

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Teenage, Rebellion, Over It

Neal Shusterman (2013). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; Unstrung: an Unwind Story; Unwholly”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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He only wishes there were something that would heal the scars in his mind, which he can still feel. He sees his mind now as an archipelago of islands that he labors to build bridges between - and while he's had great success engineering the most spectacular of bridges, he suspects there are some islands that he'll never reach.

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Islands, Engineering, Bridges

Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; UnStrung: an Unwind story; UnWholly”, p.739, Simon and Schuster

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

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Damnation, Purpose, Salvation

Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwholly”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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

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Mean, Lord, Strikes

Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwholly”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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The eternally sleeping princess, thinks Cam. But I shall free you from those poisoned brambles that surround your heart. And then you will have no choice but to love me.

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Princess, Heart, Sleep

Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwholly”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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...You know something, don't you?" "I know lots of things--your inquiry needs to be more specific." "Just answer the question." "True/false or multiple choice?

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Multiple Choice, Choices, Needs

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

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Book, Interesting, Next

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It's that quirky kind of weekend feeling they write ridiculous sunny-day songs about. You know the ones--I'm sure they're on your iPod even though you'd never admit it.

Neal Shusterman

Song, Writing, Weekend

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When it comes to such open-heart reflection, I'm a firm believer in the observer effect, which states that anything you try to observe is automatically changed by the mere fact that you're looking at it. The way I see it, if you try to study your emotions on a microscopic level, the best you can do is understand how it feels to hold the magnifying glass.

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Heart, Reflection, Glasses

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