#scytheedit

“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.”

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

   — “Therein lies the paradox of the profession”, Faraday said. “Those who wish to have the job should not have it and those who would most refuse to kill are the only ones who should.”

“I choose to be Scythe Anastasia. I vow to become the change that might have been.”

you can't expose a lie without first shattering the will to believe it. that is why leading people to truth is so much more effective than merely telling them.

What I actually mean: Greyson Tolliver is alone. Rowan and Citra are on the bottom of an ocean. Scythe Curie and Scythe Volta are dead. Thunderhead screamed. Scythe Goddard is alive. Scythe Rand is disappointed.

“Were I to begin doling out death, I would be the very monster that mortal man feared artificial intelligence would become … No, I decided. Let humankind be the saviors and the silencers. Let them be the heroes. Let them be the monsters.”

Ayn is happy.