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Did people miss the dizzy extremes of imagination as they lived their endless, uninspired lives? Rowan wondered. Did people miss their appendix?
There is now a frightening pride seething like a mortal-age cancer that finds pleasure in the act of taking life.
How frustrating it is to have so much power, yet be so impotent to wield it when it counts.
He didn’t speak to that. Instead, he said, “I took the name Lucifer because it means ‘bringer of light.’” “It’s also what mortal people once called the devil,” she pointed out. Rowan shrugged. “I guess whoever holds the torch casts the darkest shadow.”
Tyger might have thought of himself as a free spirit, but he wasn’t at all. He just defined the dimensions of his own cage.
Simply put, humanity had a need to be bad. Not everyone, of course – but I calculated that 3 percent of the population could only find meaning in life through defiance. Even if there was no injustice in the world left to defy, they had an innate need to defy something. Anything.
Since coming home, he had no reason to wake up early. There was nothing pressing to be done, and when he was awake he tended to crawl back under the covers until he could no longer justify it.
“We are not a society that believes in punishment,” he said. “Only correction.”
A teacher once told Greyson that The Fifties was, in fact, only a period of ten years, but Greyson found it hard to believe. It was probably at least a hundred.
Bit by bit, they come to appreciate inner peace. Which is as it should be. In time, all storms settle to a pleasant breeze.
you say, ‘May the Fork be with you,’ I’ll smash you with the other half of this hanger.”
grief is not an excuse for depravity.”
Scythe Beyoncé
That’s exactly what the scythedom is: high school with murder.”
And so all I can do is watch unblinkingly as my beloved humankind slowly weaves the rope it will use to hang itself.
You should. A 39 percent chance of changing the world is exponentially greater than most people can ever hope to have.
