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Arc of a Scythe, #1

Scythe

Neal Shusterman

En Eski Scythe Sözleri ve Alıntıları

En Eski Scythe sözleri ve alıntılarını, en eski Scythe kitap alıntılarını, etkileyici sözleri 1000Kitap'ta bulabilirsiniz.
Scythes wished to be seen as the many facets of light, not of darkness.
I wonder what life will be like a millennium from now, when the average age will be nearer to one thousand. Will we all be renaissance children, skilled at every art and science, because we’ve had the time to master them? Or will boredom and slavish routine plague us even more than it does today, giving us less of a reason to live limitless lives? I dream of the former, but suspect the latter.
Reklam
So then, if we are no longer human, what are we?
Love remained mortal, while we became eternal.
They dismissed it in that self-serving way parents often had of pretending anything they can’t solve is not really a problem.
People prophesized doom at the hands of a soulless machine. But apparently the machine had a purer soul than any human.
Reklam
"For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There's no version of God that can help us if we ever lose that."
They knew what had happened at school, and what was happening now, but they dismissed it in that self-serving way parents often had of pretending anything they can’t solve is not really a problem.
"Ha!” said the unsavory, puffing up at his strategic triumph. “I’ve got immunity for a year—and you can’t undo it! I know the rules!” Scythe Faraday was unfazed. “Yes, good for you,” he said. “You have three hundred sixty-five days of immunity.” And then, looking him in the eye, said, “And I’ll be seeing you on day three hundred sixty-six."
So then, if we are no longer human, what are we?
Reklam
Without the threat of suffering, we can’t experience true joy. The best we get is pleasantness.
He began to feel like a ghost in his own life, existing in a forced blind spot of the world.
My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or for comfort or for joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There's no version of God that can help us if we ever lose that.
"My real name is Shawn Dobson. Will you call me that, Rowan? Will you call me by my real name?"
Hope in the shadow of fear is the world’s most powerful motivator.
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