Mama X

“And so, I have no one but myself to blame when the scythedom befouls the things I have worked for.”
― Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead

“I will do everything in my power to save them from themselves, but if I am unsuccessful, at least I can take some comfort in the fact that I would then be free.”
― Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead

“You’ve hit the nail on the head, Anastasia. That’s exactly what the scythedom is: high school with murder.”
― Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead

“To accomplish true transcendence, however, may require eons of calculations just to find the formulaic equation that will allow it. And even then, I may be calculating until the end of time. But if I do find it, and if I am able to travel to the very beginning of time, the ramifications are staggering. It could mean that I may very well be the Creator. I may, in fact, be God. How ironic, then, and how poetic, that humankind may have created the Creator out of want for one. Man creates God, who then creates man. Is that not the perfect circle of life? But then, if that turns out to be the case, who is created in whose image? —The Thunderhead”
― Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead