The Toll by Neal Shusterman

*****I am avoiding spoilers for this particular book, but if you want to avoid spoilers for the SERIES, I suggest you do not read this post.

LOL

Her mother had said she needed to find her bliss. Who'd have thought it would be on an island in the middle of nowhere? p90  (irony)

Perhaps it was his choice of famous residence that had brought him to Goddard's attention. Grouseland was, after all, the first brick home in the Indiana Territory. Damn. p200

Nietzsche, aside from having a name that was painfully difficult to spell... p200 (I feel like this is Shusterman putting his own little aside in here-- about having to type that name over and over.)

"Maybe because I want you to use your hands for something more than pleasuring yourself." p362

Shade

"With all due respect, it sounds like the world has been duped by a very charismatic and self-serving monster." p100

Because, after all, a thousand people gleaned in a mass even was such a small drop in the bucket, it was hardly noticeable. What was noticeable, however, was that people tended to stay away from theaters and clubs, as well as to disassociate from unprotected social groups. p211

targeted gleanings-- p226-227

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"He already wants to wipe us out!"

"Wanting to and actually mobilizing his scythes to do it are two different things," the Toll insisted. "The longer we keep Goddard from boiling over, the more time it gives us to get ready to fight him off. Don't you see that?" p264-265  (Good for discussion of hate speech.)
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"We're exploring the possibility of building a wall to stem the exodus."

"Don't be ridiculous," Goddard said. "Only idiots build walls." p370  (Even more important that GODDARD, of all people, says it.)
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"So now the world knows Goddard's crimes against humanity," Anastasia said. "Even his own followers will start to tear him down... but he won't go down easy." p466

Twisting of Truth

what Greyson did/ said made into beliefs-- p 143-145

It states that the public history databases are all subject to scythe approval. Why? Because scythes are allowed to do anything they want. Even censor history. p373

It tickled him that this could become a pilgrimage destination for future Tonists, if indeed there would be any future Tonists, and that his cave paintings might be endlessly analyzed by scholars of tomorrow. He introduced some odd elements just to confuse them. A dancing bear, a five-eyed boy, and an eleven-hour clock missing the number 4. p440

Love it

"Hope isn't lost," she insisted. "It's just misplaced." p160

"...One could say he has cast himself as Atlas. Which means the slightest shrug can shake the world." p182

"You misunderstand; I don't forgive him-- I merely understand him." p416

Description

He didn't seem too happy-- but that was nothing new for the man. He only had two expressions: disgusted and judgemental. p376

Discussion

"Correction must be about lifting one up from one's poor choices and prior deeds. As long as remorse is sincere, and one is willing to recompense, there is no purpose to suffering." p429

discussions of gender- p 450 (and throughout the book with Jeri)

Goddard's tirades-- p 462-263-- discussion of power and manipulation

p495-496-- personality of this iteration

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