You don’t just go to somebody and say, ‘I’m a better person because you’re in my head. Neal Shusterman More Quotes by Neal Shusterman More Quotes From Neal Shusterman How do you judge the brightness of a light when you’re the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts. Neal Shusterman shadowlightjudging I'm alone. And I'm crying. And no one is coming to the crib. And the nightlight has burned out. And I'm mad. I'm so mad. Left frontal lobe. I...I...I don't feel so good. Left occipital lobe. I... don't remember where...Left parietal lobe. I...I...I can't remember my name,but...but...Right temporal...but I'm still here. Right frontal. I'm still here... Right occipital.I'm still...Right parietal. I'm...Cerebellum. I'm...Thalamus. I...Hypothalamus. I...Hippocampus...Medulla. Neal Shusterman madnamesremember You don't like her, do you?" "Who, me? No, I love her dearly. Evil scheming bitches are my favorite kind of people." (Risa) Neal Shusterman like-herevilpeople Milestone! This is a momentous occasion," he tells her cheerily. "It should be witnessed by a friend." She throws him an icy gaze, and he does a verbal back pedal. "Aaaand since no friends are present, I'll have to do. Neal Shusterman icyno-friendsdoe ...And perhaps you can sense, in some small twisting loop of your gut, the convergence of the wrong, of the right, and of the woefully misguided. If you do, then pay sharp attention to the moment you wake, and the moment you fall asleep...For maybe then you will know, without a shadow of a doubt, which is which. Neal Shusterman shadowdoubtfall You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't. Neal Shusterman apologizingwishpeople Try to see things differently - It's the only way to get a clearer perspective on the world and on your life. Neal Shusterman perspectivelifewayworld I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it. Neal Shusterman wordsmusictimelove I have a color-coded computer spreadsheet that divides things down to chapter fragments. Each character's point-of-view is a different color. The text of the manuscript is color-coded the same way. The last thing I do before submitting the manuscript is turn all those colors back to black. Neal Shusterman colorsblackcharacterway Before I start, I trick myself into thinking I know what's going to happen in the story, but the characters have ideas of their own, and I always go with the character's choices. Most of the time I discover plot twists and directions that are better than what I originally had planned. Neal Shusterman myselftimecharacterthinking I post on Twitter regularly, and when I checked my followers, I saw that my own characters were following me. They sounded eerily like my characters would actually sound. It was a very surreal thing to see come to life digitally! Neal Shusterman seememy-ownlife I thought 'UnSouled' would come in at around 400 pages, but it took 650 pages, and even then I felt like I was rushing the conclusion, so I asked my editor and publisher if I could divide it again. So a sequel became a trilogy, and the trilogy became a tetralogy - although we're not calling it that. Neal Shusterman comethoughtlikeif-i-could My fans have always been so supportive, and several years ago, I realized that I could thank them by naming all my characters after my Twitter and Facebook fans. Neal Shusterman facebookalwaysfansyears Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed. Neal Shusterman batteredbruisedunconscious
