Everlost Quotes

“Monster only had the power that you gave them”
― Neal Shusterman, Everlost

“Your hair looks funny," Lief said, as soon as the Ugloids left. "It stands straight up!"
No," said Nick, intensely irritated, "It's hanging straight down."
Lief just gave him an upside-down shrug. "Up is down in China and you're part-Chinese.”
― Neal Shusterman, Everlost

“This book is so interesting. I always wonder what's going to happen next.”
― Neal Shusterman, Everlost

“Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?"
Allie considered this. "Meaning?"
"Meaning, we might be able to shake things up a little, and find a way to come up heads."
"Or tails," suggested Allie.
"What are you talking about?" said Lief.
"Life and death.”
― Neal Shusterman, Everlost

“And next to Allie, the screamer, once more reminded of his job, began to wail in Allie's ear. Reflexively Allie clapped her hand over his mouth. "That," she said, "is totally uncalled for. Don't do that again. Ever." The screamer looked at her with worried eyes. "Are we clear on this subject?" said Allie. The screamer nodded and she removed her hand.
"Can I scream a little?" he asked.
"No," said Allie. "Your screaming days are over."
"Darn." And he was quiet thereafter.”
― Neal Shusterman, Everlost

“This game's stupid," said Lief. "Who the heck is Zelda, anyway?”
― Neal Shusterman, Everlost

“There are mysteries in Everlost. Some of them are wonderful, and others scary. They should all be explored, though- perhaps that's why we're here: to experience the good and the bad that Everlost has to offer.”
― Neal Shusterman, Everlost

“This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.”
― Neal Shusterman, Everlost

“What? Were you born stupid, or did you just die that way?”
― Neal Shusterman, Everlost

“We weren't going anywhere," Nick said with a smile. He was trying to sound charming, but instead wound up sounding heavily sedated.”
― Neal Shusterman, Everlost

“think of it this way," he said "It took nine months to get you born, so doesn't it figure it would take nine months to get you dead?”
― Neal Shusterman, Everlost

“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 Shusterman, Everlost

“I imagine the center of the Earth must be a crowded place by now, but perhaps it is the spirits of those of us residing there that keep the Earth alive and green.”
― Neal Shusterman, Everlost

“But we can't choose what we forget. The more we try to forget something, the more we end up remembering it.”
― Neal Shusterman, Everlost

“It can be said, then, that Everlost is heaven...for the places that deserve a share of forever.
Such places are few and far between...The greatest of these stood near Manhattan's southern-most tip: the two gray brothers to the green statue in the bay. The towers had found their heaven...held fast, and held forever by the memories of a mourning world, and by the dignity of the souls who got where they were going on that dark September day.”
― Neal Shusterman, Everlost

“Ghost implies a whole lot of things that I am NOT. Do I look like Casper to you?"
"Fine," said Nick. "We're not ghosts, we're Undefined Spectral Doohickies. USDs. Are you happy now?”
― Neal Shusterman, Everlost

“I wish you could have felt that slap I wish you could feel the pain.”
― Neal Shusterman, Everlost

“Well, this place was not purgatory, Nirvana, or any sort of rebirth, and it occurred to Nick that regardless of what people believed, the universe had its own ideas.”
― Neal Shusterman, Everlost

“Se vuoi qualcosa con tutte le tue forze, prima o poi la ottieni”
― Neal Shusterman, Everlost

“Forse siamo come una moneta in bilico”
― Neal Shusterman, Everlost

“Dove tu vedi vuoto, io vedo possibilità”
― Neal Shusterman, Everlost

“white Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur”
― Neal Shusterman, Everlost

“If there was one thing she had learned, it was that monsters only had the power that you gave them.”
― Neal Shusterman, Everlost

“Lief shook his head. „No grown-ups here. Only kids. Kids and monsters.”
„Monsters!” said Nick. „That's great. That's wonderful. I'm so glad I asked.”
― Neal Shusterman, Everlost

“Their sleep was dreamless, as it would be for a long, long time.”
― Neal Shusterman, Everlost

“She closed her eyes again, and tried to reboot. Human brains, she knew, could be like computers, especially in the time that hung between sleep and wakefulness. Sometimes you said strange things, did even stranger things, and once in a while you couldn’t figure out exactly how you got where you got.”
― Neal Shusterman, Everlost