Stuck in Neutral | Quotes

Stuck in Neutral Quotes

"My name is Shawn McDaniel. My life is like one of those 'good news--bad news' jokes."

Chap. 1, p. 1

"The deal is, I have cerebral palsy (C.P.). C.P. is not a disease; it is a condition. When I was born I got brain damaged. A tiny blood vessel burst inside my head and, as luck would have it, this blood vessel was in exactly the 100 percent perfectly wrong spot." Chap. 2, p. 6

"There is one final bad-news punch line to my life. This bad news is complicated, difficult to explain. In a nutshell, it's that I am pretty sure that my dad is planning to kill me. The good news is that he'd be doing this out of his love for me. The bad news is that whatever the wonderfulness of his motives, I'll be dead." Chap. 2, p. 12

"Dead. I'm only fourteen years old. What...
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