Challenger Deep
Neal Shusterman
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.”
“The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when 'should be' gets crushed by what is. Sometimes I think it would be easier to die than to face that, because 'what could have been' is much more highly regarded than 'what should have been.' Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.”
“I used to be afraid of dying. Now I’m afraid of not living. There’s a difference. We go through life planning for a future, but sometimes that future never comes.”
“The scariest thing of all is never knowing what you're suddenly going to believe.”
“And when the abyss looks into you - and it will - may you look back unflinching.”
“You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees a bottomless pit in yours.”
“Forget solar energy—if you could harness denial, it would power the world for generations.”
“The only thing you have for measuring what's real is your mind . . . so what happens when your mind becomes a pathological liar?”
“And you know the darkness beyond despair, just as intimately as you know the soaring heights. Because in this and all universes, there is balance. You can't have the one without facing the other. And sometimes you think you can take it because the joy is worth the despair, and sometimes you know you can't take it and how did you ever think you could?”
“There are many ways in which the "check brain" light illuminates, but here's the screwed-up part: the driver can't see it. It's like the light is positioned in the backseat cup holder, beneath an empty can of soda that's been there for a month. No one sees it but the passengers—and only if they're really looking for it, or when the light gets so bright and so hot that it melts the can, and sets the whole car on fire.”
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Book Keywords:
mental-illness, suicidal-thoughts, schizophrenia