Arkyn

“I think about religion and how, once we because our own saviors, our own gods, most faiths became irrelevant. What must it have been like to believe in something greater than oneself? To accept imperfection and look to a rising vision of all we could never be? It must have been comforting. It must have lifted people from the mundane, but also justified all sorts of evil. I often wonder if the bright benefit of belief outweighed the darkness its abuse could bring.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“The longer we live, the quicker the days seem to pass. How troublesome that is when we live forever. A year seems to pass in a matter of weeks. Decades fly with no milestones to mark them. We become settled in the inconsequential drudgery of our own lives, until suddenly we look at ourselves in the mirror and see a face we barely recognize begging us to turn a corner and be young again.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“Upset isn't the same as the world falling apart.”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“Is it not a shame," she says, "that we must wait until the end of the world for all boundaries to fall?”
― Patrick Ness, Release