You...you lost your faith?"
"No...just my convictions. I still very much believe in God- just not a god who condones human tithing."
Lev begins to feel himself choking up with an unexpected flood of feeling, all the emotions that had been building up throughout their talk- throughout the weeks- arriving all at once like a sonic boom.
"I never knew there was a choice.
Fine," Connor tells him. "Think about stuff until your head explodes. But the only thing I want to think about is surviving to eighteen."
I find your shallowness both refreshing and disappointing at the same time. Do you think that means I need therapy?
Tags: shallow unwind viewpoint surviving
Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.
Neal Shusterman[...] every time he forces himself to think before acting, it's her voice in his head telling him to slow down. He wants to tell her, but she's always so busy in the medical jet—and you don't just go to somebody and say, "I'm a better person because you're in my head.
Neal ShustermanConnor smiles with mocking warmth at him, and glances at the tattoo on his wrist. "I like your dolphin.
Neal ShustermanTags: tattoo unwind connor roland
What can fingerprints mean when they’re not necessarily yours?
Neal ShustermanTags: unwind
I wrote Unwind for lots of reasons, and it poses questions about a
lot of subjects. To state it briefly, I wanted to point out how when people
take intractable positions on an issue, and stick to extreme sides,
sometimes the result is a compromise that is worse than either extreme. I
meant it as a wake up call to society -- and to point out that sometimes the
problem IS that we take sides on an issue, when a different sort of approach
is 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 no
single answer to these questions. The problem is people who think there are
simple answers. People who see things as simple black-and-white
right-and-wrong are the type of people who will end up with a world like the
world in Unwind.
Tags: choice morality social-commentary unwind dystopian sanctity-of-life value-in-a-person
At last, he allows himself the wonderful luxury of hope.
Neal ShustermanTags: unwind
Small victories are better than none.
Neal ShustermanTags: unwind victories connor-lassiter
You don’t just go to somebody and say, ‘I’m a better person because you’re in my head.
Neal ShustermanTags: risa lev unwind connor neal-shusterman unwholly
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