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Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1) QUOTES

Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1) QUOTES

1 " Hope in the shadow of fear is the world's most powerful motivator. "

― Neal Shusterman , Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)

2 " But remember that good intentions pave many roads. Not all of them lead to hell. "

― Neal Shusterman , Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)

3 " They will find whatever button will make you dance, and dance you will, no matter how hideous the tune. "

― Neal Shusterman , Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)

4 " If you’ve ever studied mortal age cartoons, you’ll remember this one. A coyote was always plotting the demise of a smirking long-necked bird. The coyote never succeeded; instead, his plans always backfired. He would blow up, or get shot, or splat from a ridiculous height.

And it was funny.

Because no matter how deadly his failure, he was always back in the next scene, as if there were a revival center just beyond the edge of the animation cell.

I’ve seen human foibles that have resulted in temporary maiming or momentary loss of life. People stumble into manholes, are hit by falling objects, trip into the paths of speeding vehicles.

And when it happens, people laugh, because no matter how gruesome the event, that person, just like the coyote, will be back in a day or two, as good as new, and no worse—or wiser—for the wear.

Immortality has turned us all into cartoons. "

― Neal Shusterman , Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)

5 " Outside the rain finally began to fall, surging in fits and starts. “I love the way it rains here,” he told her. “It reminds me that some forces of nature can never be entirely subdued. They are eternal, which is a far better thing to be than immortal. "

― Neal Shusterman , Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)

6 " I ask for guidance. And for courage. And I beg - oh, how I beg - that I never become so desensitized to the death... that it feels normal. Commonplace. "

― Neal Shusterman , Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)

7 " Therin lies the paradox of the profession,' Faraday said. 'Those who wish to have the job should not have it...and those who would most refuse to kill are the only ones who should. "

― Neal Shusterman , Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)

8 " And as I see it they are all innocent. Even the guilty. Everyone is guilty of something, and everyone still harbors a memory of childhood innocence, no matter how many layers of life wrap around it, Humanity is innocent; humanity is guilty, and both states are undeniably true. "

― Neal Shusterman , Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)

9 " Well, she could learn self control tomorrow. Today she wanted pizza. "

― Neal Shusterman , Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)

10 " I vow to become the change that might have been "

― Neal Shusterman , Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)

11 " Even now, she looked radiant to him. How ridiculous that he'd be romanticizing her in these final hours. What could have once been love was now the resignation of a heart long broken. "

― Neal Shusterman , Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)

12 " You seemed to be awfully friendly with one of the party boys. Should I invite more of them for you next time?”
“No, no, it’s nothing like that,” said Rowan, blushing in spite of himself. “He’s just a friend from home. "

― Neal Shusterman , Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)

13 " I've found that human beings learn from their misdeeds just as often as from their good deeds. I am envious of that, for I am incapable of misdeeds. Were I not, then my growth would be exponential. "

― Neal Shusterman , Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)

14 " Death makes the whole world kin. Rowan wondered if a world without death would then make everyone stranger. "

― Neal Shusterman , Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)

15 " …found the use of actual old-school books off putting, but over time, he'd learned there was something very satisfying to the turning of pages, and the emotional catharsis of slamming a book shut "

― Neal Shusterman , Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)

16 " shouldn't the punishment for failure be the awful knowledge of that failure? "

― Neal Shusterman , Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)

17 " She didn’t answer him. He didn’t expect her to. It was just a seed he wanted to plan. "

― Neal Shusterman , Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)

18 " To live between the prospect of an unknown eternal sky and a dark, enveloping Earth must have been glorious— for how else could it give rise to such magnificent expression? "

― Neal Shusterman , Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)

19 " It was Rowan who had coined the term "lettuce-kid" to describe them. Both of them were born sandwiched somewhere in the middle of large families, and where far from being their parents’ favorites. "I got a couple of brothers that are the meat, a few sisters that are cheese and tomatoes, is I guess I’m the lettuce "

― Neal Shusterman , Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)

20 " who cared about the lettuce when the beef was being devoured? "

― Neal Shusterman , Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)