Should I push him or should I throw him?" Howie asks. "Do what comes naturally," I yelled back. "I don't know," he says. "This is a very unnatural thing.
Neal ShustermanHow do you judge the brightness of a light when youโre the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts.
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 ShustermanThe 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.
Neal Shusterman...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