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So many of our archaic traditions and rules need to be challenged. The founders, as well-meaning as they were, still suffered from a mortal mentality, having been so close to the Age of Mortality. They could not foresee the needs of the Scythedom.

There are times I feel I am fighting a losing battle against an old-fashioned apocalypse of the living dead.

I believe mortals strived more heartily toward their goals, because they knew that time was of the essence. But us? We can put things off far more effectively that those doomed to die, because death has become the exception instead of the rule.

Scythe Curie seemed a mix of many emotions, but she folded them all away, like clothes that no longer fit, and closed the drawer.

Her husband of more than ninety years was gleaned five years prior. Now she wanted to be with him, wherever he was, and if he was nowhere, then at least they would be nowhere together.

I've found that human beings learn from their misdeeds just as often as from their good deeds. I am envious of that, for I am incapable of misdeeds. Were I not, then my growth would be exponential.

They lived in a world where nothing anyone did really mattered. Survival was guaranteed. Income was guaranteed. Food was plentiful, and comfort was a given. The Thunderhead saw to everyone's needs. When you need nothing, what else can life be but pleasant?

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

I'd rather have a mind that's clear than one that's right.

I'll talk when I have something to say.

It's not about age, it's about stagnation. Some people grow stagnant before they turn their first corner. For others it could take hundreds of years.

Where power is concerned there are always those who find ways to grasp for it.

The punishment for making something barely edible was having to eat it yourself.

Will we all be renaissance children, skilled at every art and science, because we've had the time to master them? Or will boredom and slavish routine plague us even more than it does today, giving us less of a reason to live limitless lives? I dream of the former, but suspect the latter.

Only scythes that are actually young like to look young.

I have found that with the Scythedom, it is better to ask forgiveness than permission.

There was something very satisfying to the turning of the pages.

Not knowing was more terrifying than knowing.

As in my childhood, warm milk smooths the edges of the day.

Today's lesson was the sanctity of the law and the wisdom to know when it must be broken.

If drowning was to be his last experience, then let him experience it. He could feel his heart beating faster, his body trembling with the surge of adrenaline. He was afraid but fear meant he was still alive.

People believe what they want to believe.

Kohl Whitlock was just a scared little kid. Is that what everyone became in the end?

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

از نظر او ما همه‌مان محکوم به مرگ هستیم.

این را همه می‌دانند که زندگی به زندگی کردن نمی‌ارزد.

مامان اغلب می‌گفت که آدم هرگز کاملا بدبخت نمی‌شود.

همیشه در مورد چیزهایی که نمی‌شناسیم تصورات غلوآمیزی داریم.

دلم می‌خواست سعی کنم با صمیمیت و علاقه برایش توضیح دهم که هرگز در زندگیم واقعا نتوانسته‌ام پشیمان چیزی باشم. همیشه تسلیم چیزی بودم که واقع می‌شد، چه امروز و چه فردا.

شنیدم و متوجه شدم که مرا باهوش خطاب کردند. اما نمی‌فهمیدم چطور صفات یک آدم معمولی می‌تواند به اتهام‌هایی کوبنده علیه یک گناهکار به حساب آید.