“We can't have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die. They ought to be willing to die. It's a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live and taint the race.”
“Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die.”
“You and I ought not to die,before we have explained ourselves to each other.”
“Until we are willing to die, we have no right to live.”
“That Jem makes beautiful things and I destroy them. That it really ought to be me dying and not him. I mean, what's the point of living if you can't even enjoy it? Yet Jem enjoys all the life he's got. It's not fair.”
“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”