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Quotes About Scythe

How is a scythe disciplined?" Rowan had asked. "He was put to death twelvefold by a jury of scythes, then revived each time. After the twelfth revival, he was on probation for a year.
~ Neal Shusterman
Then he left without paying the bill, because no bill was, or would ever be, brought to a scythe.
~ Neal Shusterman
The thought of a scythe having milk and cookies before bed bordered on absurd to Citra. But she suppose even an agent of death would have guilty pleasures.
~ Neal Shusterman
It's Honorable Scythe Anastasia to you
~ Neal Shusterman
But life can never be the same after a year of training to be a scythe
~ Neal Shusterman
The meal was awkward—mostly silence punctuated by the occasional comment by the scythe. "You have a lovely home." "What flavorful lemonade!" "This may be the best baked ziti in all of MidMerica!" Even though everything he said was complimentary, his voice registered like a seismic shock down everyone's spine.
~ Neal Shusterman
Well, said Curie, with deadpan irony, how proud your sponsoring scythe must be to have the first perfect pupil in history.
~ Neal Shusterman
Some scythe robes were bright, some more muted. They looked like the rich, flowing robes of Renaissance angels, both heavy yet lighter than air.
~ Neal Shustermanrman
But as the attackers began falling from the Defenders' concentrated fire Vader reached the firing line, the red blade of his lightsaber cutting through the enemy like a scythe through ripened grain as he walked through their midst.
~ Timothy Zahn
A thousand feet above the crash site the flock of crows re-formed, drew into a tight cloud that took on the shape of a scythe as it flew low across the town, wheeling and soaring, filling the cool clear air with their brassy cries, and then it rose up in one coherent mass and disappeared into the east in the direction of Tallulah's Wall.
~ carsten stroud
I have terrible nightmares, you know. Every night when I come home from a long day's dying, I take off my skin and lay it nicely on my armoire. I take off my bones and hang them up on the hatstand. I set my scythe to washing on the old stove. I eat a nice supper of mouse-and-myrrh soup. Some nights I drink off a nice red wine. White does not agree with me. I lay myself down on a bed of lilies and still, I cannot sleep.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
poster of Santa Muerte, Holy Death, a skeleton in a hooded cloak, with a grinning skull, her bony hand wrapped around the shaft of a scythe.
~ Paul Theroux
To find the Scythe of Nen, I first had to find possibly the most elusive quarry I'd ever had to locate in my entire seeking career: a virgin on an island full of college students.
~ Unknown
There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe.
~ Mervyn Peake