{"author":"Neal Shusterman","author_id":"Neal+Shusterman","total_quotes":138,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"Neal Shusterman","tags":["audrey","black","gray","neal-shusterman","problems","risa","solutions","unsouled","women"],"id":1132,"author_id":"Neal+Shusterman"},{"text":"I know this is your hand now,' she tells him. 'Roland would have never touched me like that.' Connor smiles, and Risa takes a moment to look down at the shark on his wrist. It holds no fear for her now, because the shark has been tamed by the soul of a boy. No- the soul of a man.","author":"Neal Shusterman","tags":["connor","hopeful","risa"],"id":7584,"author_id":"Neal+Shusterman"},{"text":"I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never waited; they were there upon waking. Our family has a problem with what they called delayed gratification. We want what we want when we want it, and we always want it now.","author":"Neal Shusterman","tags":["delayed-gratification","ennui","spoiled","want","wealth"],"id":9298,"author_id":"Neal+Shusterman"},{"text":"We'll never be ready. So I guess that means we're as ready as we'll ever be.","author":"Neal Shusterman","tags":["battle","not-ready","ready"],"id":14595,"author_id":"Neal+Shusterman"},{"text":"Man, Grandma, what big hair you have.'The better to style with, my dear.","author":"Neal Shusterman","tags":["fairy-tale","fairy-tales","funny","hair","red-riding-hood"],"id":22608,"author_id":"Neal+Shusterman"},{"text":"We're roughage,' Tyger said. 'If we don't cause a little intestinal distress, no one knows we're there.","author":"Neal Shusterman","tags":["death","neal-shusterman","politics"],"id":26489,"author_id":"Neal+Shusterman"},{"text":"I wrote Unwind for lots of reasons, and it poses questions about alot of subjects. To state it briefly, I wanted to point out how when peopletake intractable positions on an issue, and stick to extreme sides,sometimes the result is a compromise that is worse than either extreme. Imeant it as a wake up call to society -- and to point out that sometimes theproblem IS that we take sides on an issue, when a different sort of approachis needed. It's also to pose questions about what it means to be alive.Where does life begin, where does it end -- and point out that there is nosingle answer to these questions. The problem is people who think there aresimple answers. People who see things as simple black-and-whiteright-and-wrong are the type of people who will end up with a world like theworld in Unwind.","author":"Neal Shusterman","tags":["choice","dystopian","morality","sanctity-of-life","social-commentary","unwind","value-in-a-person"],"id":28018,"author_id":"Neal+Shusterman"},{"text":"It was easier to deal with Tennyson when he was fighting me; but having him on my side was frightening, because now I didn't know who the enemy was.","author":"Neal Shusterman","tags":["enemy","fighting"],"id":45778,"author_id":"Neal+Shusterman"},{"text":"What's going on? I'm in the back car of a roller coaster at the top of the climb, with the front rows already giving themselves over to gravity. I can hear those front riders screaming and know my own scream is only seconds away. I'm at the moment you hear the landing gear of a plane grind loudly into place, in that instant before your rational mind tells you it's just the landing gear. I'm leaping off a cliff only to discover I can fly... And then realizing there's nowhere to land. Ever. That's what's going on.","author":"Neal Shusterman","tags":["mental-illness"],"id":45820,"author_id":"Neal+Shusterman"},{"text":"This book is so interesting. I always wonder what's going to happen next.","author":"Neal Shusterman","tags":["fiction","interesting","mysterious"],"id":46319,"author_id":"Neal+Shusterman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":138,"pages":14,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}