Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)

by Neal Shusterman

Hope in the shadow of fear is the world’s most powerful motivator.

What must life have been like in the Age of Mortality? Full of passions, both good and bad. Fear giving rise to faith. Despair giving meaning to elation. They say even the winters were colder and the summers were warmer in those days.

The greatest achievement of the human race was not conquering death. It was ending government.

People can read anything, but no one does. All they do is play games and watch cat holograms.”

we must always be vigilant, because power comes infected with the only disease left to us: the virus called human nature.

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