Neal Shusterman Quotes

The readiness is all.

What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.

In the world we have entered there will be many things that we can do nothing about. We should accept this state of affairs and incidentally, be grateful for it.

You prepare. You study. You've got to be ready for anything.

Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments.

We don't have control over many things. We're always grasping for it, but in reality, we don't have a lot of control.

Some things you can't control.

You never know how much you can do in practice because you never know if you're going to play or not, but the main thing is stay ready.

There are things that are not in your control and you will never be able to control them. You've got to accept that very quickly.

You always have to be on top of your game, because you never know what is going to happen.

I've stopped making plans a long time back because they never work in my case. Now, I just take each day as it comes.

Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes.

"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."

Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.

It is what it is. Isn't that how these things always go? They are what they are. We just get to cope.

Fate rules. You follow the steps and you plan and you work. Then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or out guess it but most often its already written. For some its written in blood. That doesn't mean we stop, but it does mean we can't comfort ourselves with blame. It's easier to take the blame than to admit there was nothing you could do to stop whatever happened.

Change is inevitable, though," he replied. "As is disappointment. Best to get used to it now.

I've never been ready to do a single thing I've ever done in my life. I haven't been prepared enough, haven't studied enough, haven't known enough. You can never be ready. There's just so much to know.

The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes.

The more chances you get, the more comfortable you feel. I?m ready to go out there if something happens. I?ll feel comfortable if I am ever called on.

What can't be helped must be endured.

Man is better without knowledge of things to come, for what is to be will be, and man can neither avert nor hasten. It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.

I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.

There’s no such thing as ready,” she says. “There’s only willing.

Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.