Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)

by Neal Shusterman

“Guilt is the idiot cousin of remorse,”

Being made to suffer pain frees us to feel the joy of being human.”

Without the threat of suffering, we can’t experience true joy. The best we get is pleasantness.”

there are some who seek celebrity to change the world, and others who seek it to ensnare the world.

The predator is always a monster to the prey. To the gazelle the lion is a demon. To a mouse, the eagle is evil incarnate.”

I have become the monster of monsters, he thought as he watched it all burn. The butcher of lions. The executioner of eagles.