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they dismissed it in that self-serving way parents often had of pretending anything they can’t solve is not really a problem.
She had never been sure what path her life would take. She assumed she would go to college, get a degree in something pleasant, then settle into a comfortable job, meet a comfortable guy, and have a nice, unremarkable life. It’s not that she longed for such an existence, but it was expected. Not just of her, but of everyone. With nothing to really aspire to, life had become about maintenance. Eternal maintenance.
The greatest achievement of the human race was not conquering death. It was ending government.
No one rages against the system anymore. At most, they just glare at it a bit. Perhaps this is why the Thunderhead still allows a measured amount of economic inequality. It could certainly make sure that everyone had equal wealth—but that would just add to the plague of boredom that afflicts the immortal. Although we all have what we need, we’re still allowed to strive for the things we want. Of course, no one strives like they did in mortal days, when the inequality was so great people would actually steal from one another—sometimes ending lives in the process. I wouldn’t want the return of
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It seemed every scythe had surrendered something of themselves—not because they had to but because they chose to—as a way to pay for the lives they took.
The sanctity of the law… and the wisdom to know when it must be broken.
Even though the whole world had slid off its axis. Breakfast was breakfast. How dare it be?
People prophesized doom at the hands of a soulless machine. But apparently the machine had a purer soul than any human.
Being made to suffer pain frees us to feel the joy of being human.”
For only the pain of empathy will keep us human.
