Cassidy

“Perhaps that is why we must, by law, keep a record. A public journal, testifying to those who will never die and those who are yet to be born, as to why we human beings do the things we do. We are instructed to write down not just our deeds but our feelings, because it must be known that we do have feelings. Remorse. Regret. Sorrow too great to bear. Because if we didn't feel those things, what monsters would we be?”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“Nature deemed that to be born was an automatic sentence to death, and then brought about that death with vicious consistency. We”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“We can put off things far more effectively than those doomed to die, because death has become the exception instead of the rule.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

“I wonder what life will be like a millennium from now, when the average age will be nearer to one thousand. Will we all be renaissance children, skilled at every art and science, because we’ve had 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 I suspect the latter.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe