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Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2) QUOTES

Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2) QUOTES

1 " How ironic, then, and how poetic, that humankind may have created the Creator out of want for one. Man creates God, who then creates man. Is that not the perfect circle of life? But then, if that turns out to be the case, who is created in whose image? "

― Neal Shusterman , Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2)

2 " Wailing that the sky is falling does nothing to stop it. "

― Neal Shusterman , Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2)

3 " finding easy scapegoats for complicated problems had been a human pastime since the first mob of cavemen struck someone down with a rock. "

― Neal Shusterman , Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2)

4 " Let’s all forsake,
The Land of Wake,
And break for the Land of Nod.

Where we can try,
To touch the sky,
Or dance beneath the sod.

A toll for the living,
A toll for the lost,
A toll for the wise ones,
Who tally the cost,

So let’s escape,
Due south of Wake,
And make for the Land of Nod. "

― Neal Shusterman , Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2)

5 " I should glean you right here and bring your heart to Constantine!"
"He'd probably eat it."
"Probably," Citra had to admit. "

― Neal Shusterman , Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2)

6 " Marie couldn't help but smile. This girl whom she had not even wanted to take on in the first place had become her greatest supporter. Her truest friend. "

― Neal Shusterman , Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2)

7 " Please rate your level of annoyance on a scale of one to ten."
"Are you serious?"
"We can't proceed with intake until you answer the question."
"Uh ... five," he said, "No—six; the question made it worse."
"Have you experienced any unfair treatment since being marked unsavory? Anyone refusing you service, or in any way infringing upon your rights as a citizen?"
The rote way in which she asked the question made him want to smack that tablet out of her hand. At least she could have pretended to sare about his answer the way she had pretended to smile.
"People looked at me like I've just killed their cat."
She looked at him as if he's just told her he actually had killed a few cats. "Unfortunately, I can't do anything about the way people look at you. But if your rights are ever infringed upon, it's important that you let your probation officer know."
"Wait—you're not my probation officer?"
She sighed. “I’m your intake officer. You’ll meet your probation officer after we’re done with intake.”
“Will I have to take a number again?”
“Yes.”
“Then please change my annoyance level to nine. "

― Neal Shusterman , Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2)

8 " He would be provided for even if he made no discernible contribution to the world - and right now he had no desiire to contribute anything to the world but his bodily waste. "

― Neal Shusterman , Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2)

9 " To deny humanity the lesson of consequences would be a mistake.
And I do not make mistakes. "

― Neal Shusterman , Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2)

10 " I can communicate in 6,909 living and dead languages. I can have more than fifteen billion simultaneous conversations, and be fully engaged in every single one. I can be eloquent, and charming, funny, and endearing, speaking the words you most need to hear, at the exact moment you need to hear them.
Yet even so, there are unthinkable moments where I can find no words, in any language, living or dead.
And in those moments, if I had a mouth, I might open it to scream. "

― Neal Shusterman , Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2)

11 " Rowan grinned. "Come now, Your Excellency, there hasn't been a terrorist in hundreds of years. I'm just a janitor cleaning filth from dark corners. "

― Neal Shusterman , Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2)

12 " His eyes had a careworn coolness to them as if he had seen more than he should, and had stopped caring in order to save what was left of his soul. "

― Neal Shusterman , Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2)

13 " Anastasia felt inadequate among the greats, and yet they parted to make sure she was in the midst of them, as an equal. "

― Neal Shusterman , Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2)

14 " The harder you scrutinize randomness," Faraday declared, "the more coincidence seems like a design. "

― Neal Shusterman , Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2)

15 " Although I do not require devotion, am I not deserving of it? "

― Neal Shusterman , Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2)

16 " We are forever impaled upon our own wisdom. "

― Neal Shusterman , Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2)

17 " Our choices are not easy- nor should they be. "

― Neal Shusterman , Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2)

18 " Ours is a perfect world--but perfection does not linger in one place. It is a firefly, by its very nature elusive and unpredictable. "

― Neal Shusterman , Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2)

19 " Death must exist for life to have meaning. "

― Neal Shusterman , Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2)

20 " It is the plight of every child to have depth their parents can scarcely imagine. "

― Neal Shusterman , Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2)