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21 " She idly wonders which is crueler, man or nature. She determines it must be man. Nature has no remorse, but neither does it have malice. "
― Neal Shusterman , UnSouled (Unwind, #3)
22 " Incredible. It never ceases to amaze Starkey how far society will go to protect the children it loves and to discard the ones it doesn’t. "
23 " (B)ut when the time is right and the winds begin to change, even the deadest of dreams can be resurrected. "
24 " They have elevated him on a pedestal, but...a pedestal is nothing more than an elegant cage. No walls, no locks, but unless one has wings to fly away, one is trapped. A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised. "
25 " Talking about someone in the third person is rude." Cam tells her coolly."Really?" Says Connor. "When you're a hundred people, wouldn't third person be a compliment? "
26 " definition. How can she not see that when you are defined, you lose the ability to define yourself? "
27 " You must stop these reckless surrenders to your momentary moods. "
28 " They are not people--they are ideas. They are just extensions of the enemy. "
29 " Cam knows this is not going to be a good day the moment he sees the chain saw. "
30 " If you come anywhere near my daughter, I will see to it that you are taken apart piece by bloody piece. Do I make myself clear?""Any clearer," says Cam, "and you'd be invisible. "
31 " But birthdays are random... Defining one's life by the day one was cut from an umbilical cord is completely arbitrary. "
32 " a true leader never puts his ego ahead of his assets. "
33 " But life doesn’t end,” the smiling proponents of unwinding all insist. “It just transforms. We like to call it ‘living in a divided state.’ "
34 " I was actually being sincere,” Connor admits. “But I’m happy to insult you, if that’s what you want. "
35 " It's an idea-an idea that, according to the history expert somewhere in my left brain, was abolished in 1865. "
36 " The exploration of possibility has always been the realm of science. The true scientist leave practical application to others. "
37 " I'd never want a piece of someone else's brain," Kele had said. "I mean, you don't know where it's been. "
38 " And she will restore to him his soul. "
39 " But there’s a road to hell for every good intention. "
40 " unwinding is, by law, painless. "