Scythe is a 2016 young-adult novel by Neal Shusterman and is the first in the Arc of a Scythe series.

Scythe Book Quotes

1. “The growth of civilization was complete. Everyone knew it. When it came to the human race, there was no more left to learn.”

2. “Humanity is innocent; humanity is guilty, and both states are undeniably true.”

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

4. “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.”

5. “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?”

6. “Death makes the whole world kin. Rowan wondered if a world without death would then make everyone strangers.”

7. “Estrangement from the collective consciousness of humanity’s wisdom is just one more thing that sets scythes apart from others.”

8. “They removed their raincoats to reveal robes of all colors, all textures. It was a rainbow that summoned forth anything but thoughts of death. This, Citra realized, was intentional. Scythes wished to be seen as the many facets of light, not of darkness.”

9. ″‘Never lose your humanity,’ Scythe Faraday had told him, ‘or you’ll be nothing more than a killing machine.‘”

10. “With each gleaning I commit, with each life taken for the good of humanity, I mourn for the boy I once was, whose name I sometimes struggle to remember. And I long for a place beyond immortality where I can, in some small measure, resurrect the wonder, and be that boy again.”