Unsouled Quotes

Wars have a way reinventing people. And making too many things disappear.
-Sonia ~ Neal Shusterman

Old-fashioned people still say "bless you" when one sneezes, but they have forgotten the reason for the custom. The reason was that people were thought to sneeze out their souls, and before their souls could get back lurking demons were apt to enter the unsouled body; but if any one said "God bless you," the demons were frightened off. ~ Christopher Hitchens

I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray. ~ Neal Shusterman

Do we exist because others perceive our existence, or is, indeed, our own affirmation enough? ~ Neal Shusterman

Luck, however, is too dumb to remain consistent ~ Neal Shusterman

One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future. ~ Neal Shusterman

I thought 'UnSouled' would come in at around 400 pages, but it took 650 pages, and even then I felt like I was rushing the conclusion, so I asked my editor and publisher if I could divide it again. So a sequel became a trilogy, and the trilogy became a tetralogy - although we're not calling it that. ~ Neal Shusterman

The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It is for this reason that all the plants are also held to be alive ... ~ Aristotle.