Neal Shusterman Quotes

Every person I killed I strongly believe that they were bad. When I do go face God there is going to be lots of things I will have to account for but killing any of those people is not one of them.

She had killed him with a whisper, and she would kill two more before she was through. I’m the ghost in Harrenhal, she thought. And that night, there was one less name to hate.

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

The old fool has taken more lives in that naked country than I have taken for the murder of my father.

I'm not bloodthirsty, but...seriously, she killed you. She needs to be dead.

If I'm not a murderer," asked Corny, "how come I keep killing people?

This ring belongs to the black hand. He killed your dad.

In such a regime, I say, you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chest-without asking to be paid.

The way I was brought up ‘he needed killing’ is an airtight alibi.

He kills people. Now I'm no expert, but doesn't that make you a bad person?" Jamie glared at Nick. "You've killed a lot more people than he has. What does that make you?" "Not a person," Nick murmured, not sounding particularly interested. "Surely you remember.

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

Down by the river, I shot my baby dead.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

the function of militarism is to kill. It cannot live except through murder.

The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was the braver and stronger if you have to peer through layers of glass that deliver the image but obscure the meaning of the act? War has a conscience or it's ordinary murder.

And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "Use it well, use it wisely.

The hoverlanes were murder.

Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.

Click bang, what a hang, your daddy just shot poor me.

A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.

Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

...a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes--for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life.

Here's a little tip for you. If you don't like being called a murderer, don't kill people.

You - will - never - touch - our - children - again!' screamed Mrs. Weasley. Bellatrix laughed, the same exhilarated laugh her cousin Sirius had given as he toppled backwards through the veil, and suddenly Harry knew what was going to happen before it did. Molly's curse soared beneath Bellatrix's outstretched arm and hit her squarely in the chest, directly over her heart. Bellatrix's gloating smile froze, her eyes seemed to bulge: for the tiniest space of time she knew what had happened, and then she toppled, and the watching crowd roared, and Voldemort screamed.