Carl was just saying good-bye," Mom said.
"Really," I said. "He must speak in tongues.
...if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened...but people like to keep what's theirs, even after they're dead.
Neal ShustermanOnce in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.
Neal ShustermanTags: school teachers students
Cities are never random.
No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem. In fact, a city is nothing more than a solution to a problem, that in turn creates more problems that need more solutions, until towers rise, roads widen, bridges are built, and millions of people are caught up in a mad race to feed the problem-solving, problem-creating frenzy.
Tags: books quotes cities downsiders
On a hairpin turn, above the dead forest, on no day in particular, a white Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur of gray.
Neal ShustermanPerhaps, thought Talon, there was a path in between. A way to shed their ignorance without losing their souls.
Neal ShustermanI will be keeper of your secret," Talon told the silent grave of the forgotten inventor. "I will be the one who remembers why we forget.
Neal ShustermanAnyway, don't they have girls your age down there?"
Talon shrugged. "Yeah...but none of them ever sprayed me with eye-poison.
My grandmother used to say that twisting paths always cross again," he told her. "And whose paths are more twisted than ours?
Neal ShustermanI don't know what happens to our consciousness when we're unwound," says Connor. "I don't even know when that consciousness starts. But I do know this." He pauses to make sure all of them are listening. "We have a right to our lives!"
The kids go wild.
"We have a right to choose what happens to our bodies!"
The cheers reach fever pitch.
"We deserve a world where both those things are possible— and it's our job to help make that world.
Tags: change-the-world pro-choice pro-life unwind-connor
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