Neal Shusterman Quotes

Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you that there is magic in it, and if you show yourself naked for me, I'll be naked for you. It will be our covenant.

Only one who has risked the fight with the dragon and is not overcome by it wins the "treasure hard to attain." He alone has a genuine claim to self-confidence, for he has faced the dark ground of his self and thereby has gained himself. This experience gives him faith and trust.

If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience. How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.

One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.

You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

Only out of great vulnerability do you discover what strength you have. Having a daughter who I love with all my being has helped me mine the source of that strength to previously unknown depths.

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

Sometimes the future that you imagined to be the most dreadful, turns out to be the future that compels you to reach down very deeply into your being to uncover reservoirs of strength and perserverance that you had no idea were there.

In every life there is an element of victory over fear, which needs to be searched for, though it may be a false victory.

The project you are most scared to do is the one that holds your greatest growth.

During the bus boycott, I was tested by fire, and I came to understand that I was not a breakable crystal figurine.

What I've found is that every time you have that uncertainty, if you face it, walk through it, you grow as an individual and gain confidence.

Failure is ultimately very liberating. Once you come out the other side of it, you just might have faced one of your biggest fears and lived. The other side of failure is a big elimination of fear of failure. Trust me, that is an amazing gift.

It's the trials and tribulations that really test a person, and coming through those difficulties is what shapes a person's character.

I think I learned I'm braver than I think I am.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Letting go is fearless. Then, moving on and being alright, that’s fearless too.

it is only courage on the path itself that makes the path appear

Courage in the path is what makes the path manifest itself.

Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave birth to my infinite being, but I had to wrench myself out of me with forceps.

You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way and shows honestly how it can be done.