Scythe / Thunderhead / The Toll Quotes

“Hope in the shadow of fear is the world's most powerful motivator”
― Neal Shusterman, The Arc of a Scythe Paperback Trilogy (Boxed Set): Scythe; Thunderhead; The Toll

“How I long to be understood”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe / Thunderhead / The Toll

“and I find myself asking again, again and again, where are you my dear Marie?”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe / Thunderhead / The Toll

“You really are just like him," she said. "You both twist people's minds until they don't know which way is up. So you'll excuse me if I never speak to you again."
"You will," Rowan said with absolute certainty. "Because after he ends me, he'll make you dispose of whatever's left of me, the way you disposed of what was left of Tyger. And then, when no one's listening, you'll snipe at my charred bones, just so you can have the last word. Maybe you'll even spit on them. But it won't make you feel any better.
And it was infuriating. Because she knew he was right on every count.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe / Thunderhead / The Toll

“Never hold a weapon when angry even if that weapon was a dinner knife.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe / Thunderhead / The Toll