Jae

“It was like stepping onstage at your first piano recital and realizing that you’d never played anything but an instrument with broken keys. Your world shifts, but you’re asked to adjust and overcome, to play your music the same as everyone else.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There’s no version of God that can help us if we ever lose that.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“Death must exist for life to have meaning.”
― Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead

“Without the threat of suffering, we can’t experience true joy.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe