Neal Shusterman Quotes

He could shred me so easily. A few words, a desperate look, and I was cut wide open.

It's easier to control people when they're afraid.

Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

I don't like people that try to psyche other people out.

I won’t snatch, harm, or scare to death people with you or use checking up on you as an excuse to cause trouble. You’re worse than my mother, Rachel.” “Mine, too,” Jenks muttered.

Take a good look around and you'll find people trying to mess with your mind.

Sometimes the people who mean you harm, are the ones that say they love you.

What I Suddenly Understand My job is to make people uncomfortable. + I will do it all my life. ---> My mother, Sasha Blake, is my first victim.

Honestly, it’s so easy to get what you want from people if they think you’re a psycho.

I was an emotional manipulator of fighters . . . You have to know how to be cold, you know? Just have no -emotions, no feelings. It takes time, though, to develop that. I'd been working on that since I was 12 years old. It doesn't happen overnight.

There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.

People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it's not easily controlled.

Anyone would be able to be played by someone like him [Donald Trump], that's what he did, he played people.

We have to be irrational and vindictive, because that's going to frighten people. And we have to maintain this for years. And then we'll be able to carry out the actions that we want to carry out.

People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. They weep big, bitter tears - not for you. For themselves, because they've lost their toy.

My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.

I don't play games with people's lives like you do.

Of course. Opal is toying with our emotions for her own gratification. Nothing more. She wishes to place herself in a position of power, emotionally.

That's how disagreements always ended with Hugh Hefner; he would just stomp off, and you were left to pick the pieces of your self-worth up off the floor. I'd invested every part of myself in the mansion and had nothing waiting for me outside those gates. I felt so trapped and so vulnerable to his criticisms.

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears

Her violence frightened me. She always claimed that I was the jealous one, and I was often jealous, but when I saw things working against me I simply became disgusted and withdrew. Lydia was different. She reacted. She was the Head Cheerleader at the Game of Violence.

He who does not know how to encircle a girl so that she loses sight of everything he does not want her to see, he who does not know how to poetize himself into a girl so that it is from her that everything proceeds as he wants it-he is and remains a bungler

All I knew was that I would die if he sent me away. He shrugged. You can cut a man’s heart out with a shrug, did you know that?

Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.