Downsiders
Neal Shusterman
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem. In fact, a city is nothing more than a solution to a problem, that in turn creates more problems that need more solutions, until towers rise, roads widen, bridges are built, and millions of people are caught up in a mad race to feed the problem-solving, problem-creating frenzy.”
“My grandmother used to say that twisting paths always cross again," he told her. "And whose paths are more twisted than ours?”
“...New Beginning to the same old story”
“Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest--that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment.”
“Perhaps, thought Talon, there was a path in between. A way to shed their ignorance without losing their souls.”
“People would cheer throw confetti and then go about breaking the resolutions they had made only moments before.”
“I will be keeper of your secret," Talon told the silent grave of the forgotten inventor. "I will be the one who remembers why we forget.”
“You think just because we got stars up here we can wish on 'em and make everything better”
“Anyway, don't they have girls your age down there?" Talon shrugged. "Yeah...but none of them ever sprayed me with eye-poison.”
“while an adult could rarely be universally loved, everyone could love the right kid.”
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