Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.
Neal ShustermanYou should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.
Neal ShustermanIt does, Tennyson, because thereโs a fine line between confidence and arrogance. Thereโs a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And youโre on the wrong side of both lines.
Neal ShustermanHe 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.
Neal Shusterman