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121 " I think about religion and how, once we became our own saviors, our own gods, most faiths became irrelevant. What must it have been like to believe in something greater than ourselves? To accept imperfection and look to a rising vision of all we could never be? It must have been comforting. It must have been frightening. It must have lifted people from the mundane, but also justified all sorts of evil. I often wonder if the bright benefit of belief outweighed the darkness its abuse could bring. "
― Neal Shusterman , Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)
122 " People prophesized doom at the hands of a soulless machine. But apparently the machine had a purer soul than any human. It watched the world from millions of eyes, listened from millions of ears. I either acted, or chose not to act on, the countless things it perceived. "
123 " For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. "
124 " A scythe doesn’t have to follow through on a threat for it to be effective. "
125 " Nature deemed that to be born was an automatic sentence to death, and then brought about that death with vicious consistency. "
126 " I am in my element, and my element is hydrogen burning in the heart of the sun. "
127 " think all young women are cursed with a streak of unrelenting foolishness, and all young men are cursed with a streak of absolute stupidity. He "
128 " He put the ring away, and Rowan let out his breath, not even realizing he had been holding it. "
129 " the woman sitting beside him in 15A. There was no 15B—the concept of the B seat, where one had to sit between two other passengers, had been eliminated along with other unpleasant things, like disease and government. "
130 " La humanidad es inocente; la humanidad es culpable. Y ambos estados son indiscutiblemente ciertos. "
131 " La esperanza bajo la sombra del miedo es el incentivo más poderoso. "
132 " Esta noche seremos testigos del espectáculo de la estupidez y la tragedia humana. Mañana lo viviremos. "
133 " Guilt is the idiot cousin of remorse,” Scythe Faraday had been fond of saying. "
134 " He didn’t just break her neck,” Scythe Goddard pointed out. “He unflinchingly snapped her spine! Everyone heard it. I’m sure it woke up the scythes sleeping in the back row!” “Classic!” said Scythe Chomsky, guzzling his champagne down, not waiting for the toast. "
135 " Hope in the shadow of fear is the world’s most powerful motivator. Citra "
136 " 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. "
137 " You'd make a good scythe".Citra recoiled. "I'd never want to be one.""That," he said, "is the first requirement "
138 " Rowan stared at him in disbelief. "Are you nuts? Do you even know what you're saying? My god, what are you on?""Just my own nanites, man. Just my own nanites. "
139 " The ending of human life used to be in the hands of nature. But we stole it. Now we have a monopoly on death. We are its sole distributor. "
140 " Everyone is guilty of something, and everyone still harbors a memory of childhood innocence, no matter how many layers of life wrap around it. "