Dystopia Quotes
The zoo grounds reeked of desolation, but the silence had an undercurrent, a silvery vibe, like the hush of a concert hall just before the first note.
I can almost see the processes whirrling clunkily in his singularix, as his excited nervous system battled with his logic circuits.
The paths people choose in life can lead to the creation or destruction of people, places, things, and relationships. The future is uncertain, but what is certain is there will be change.
His eyes met mine. Brown eyes. I couldn’t read anything and as he turned away I realised he didn’t intend to tell me anything either.
Find our way out, Greenie. Solve the buggin' Maze and find our way out.
The Suitors Ball is fast approaching and it's a nasty reminder that my suitor will be chosen shortly. I feel sorry for the poor unfortunate guy, whichever one of them it happens to be.
If we keep punishing people for what their parents or their ancestors have done, the world as a whole can never move forward. Society will never grow.
I plant a gentle parting kiss on his lips, our strategy is well and truly screwed at this stage anyway. We barely lasted a day.
...because of the foulness of her mother's emotional river, a current which ran swift, changing its path without warning...
Never trust a man who sits, uninvited, at the head of the table in another man's home.
This is the legacy of a compassionate bunch. Our fate now rests on the whims of men.
They say that when people still rode on vehicles powered by oil, they could go anywhere they wanted.
There was no sudden twists or ups and downs, just stories of that person's everyday life. The theme was "growing old". There were no beautiful wo
You don’t have to keep living in a dystopia simply because you’re strong and noble enough to accept it.
We imagine all these postapocalyptic, class-stratified, new-world-order techno-futures. But actually the real world, the world we live in, this is the dystopia.
If nothing else, it's pleasant to consider the possibility. He likes the thought of ships moving over the water, toward another world just out of sight.
Oh that voice, so sweet. Rich, like the taste of vanilla ice cream, vowels like flute music, warm caramel consonants. She could float in that voice forever and not miss a thing.
…our world did not fall because we did not believe in fairness… our world fell because it could no longer support the enormous weight we had put upon it, in the name of fairness.
There has to be beauty left in the world, Julia, " said Kiyu. "Otherwise we have nothing.
It helps if you don’t think of them as human. More than one officer has called this job pest control.
The better you tell an old story, the more you are talking about right now.
A mix of revenge, sadness and anger funnels into a decision that’s so simple and neat, it could fit in my pocket. I will help Kudzu destroy Aevum. Just like Magnus destroyed my mother.
It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of its absence.
My fingers find his. They are warm, pulsing with genetically altered blue blood, powered by mirror matter.
The antagonists of finance’s future, the diaboli ex machina, may have no face at all.
Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity.And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield.
So as near as I could tell the end of the world began roughly about the time that Billy Carver’s butt rang about halfway through the War of 1812.
It was a room full of ghosts, arranged in readiness for days that would never happen.
He saw the rules of life clearly for the first time and they were simple: it was a game where Death was the only winner.
Sadie gave her head an exaggerated scratch. ‘Don’t come too close if you know what’s good for you, these nits are on steroids.
For one last time, I said my goodbyes to the place I’d known as home for the last decade, and for the first time, I welcomed the unknown.