Dystopian Fiction Quotes
Dystopian Fiction Quote of the day
Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.
Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.
A good friend is someone who gets ya drunk and then walks ya home afterwards.
They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead.
... Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.
That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.
Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare to speak.
Writing is emotional...it is baring your soul to the world and waiting for someone to acknowledge and love it, or shun and hate it, or worse be indifferent about it.
Ask very pointed questions. Sharp as sword blades, or laser blasts, if you catch my meaning.
That’s what you people do, isn’t it? Make assumptions and sell them to impressionable idiots.
Money is a tool we use to reach certain ends. Nothing more, nothing less. It’s hard to come by, though, so when opportunities arise, we need to make the most of them.
That was a double negative, Jemail. By saying that you haven’t seen nobody, you’re actually saying that you have seen somebody.
Sound bytes. Catch phrases. Sales pitches. Words. All lexical legitimizing. ‘A rose by any other name…’ he said. In the end it’s all propaganda.
Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.
It’s degrading being routinely subjected to a battery of medical tests to ensure I continue to deserve a place in this new world.
Fantastic, ” I said without an ounce of enthusiasm. “I’m just one more embarrassing confession away from taking over the world.” --Spencer Nye
Prince Maxon surveyed the room and found me. Our eye met for a moment, and he smiled.
... she wore a masterpiece smile with smudges of paint and graphite across her cheek, and her eyes were a Jackson Pollock painting.
Well one tiny poisonous spider can kill a very large man if it bites him in the right place.
I was a new person. A new Aurora. I was Aurora of Itchikan City-State.
Biking up the same mile-and-a-half long asphalt hill is so much harder when I know that at the end of the journey I’ll either be an outlaw, or I’ll be dead.
Evangeline, " he sighed. "It ain't ever goan to be easy with you, is it?
If the only option you leave poor people with is to resort to violence in order to survive, they’ll do just that. And there are lots more poor people in this world than there are rich ones.
... there are certain questions that must never be asked. Of anyone. Even oneself.
What’s not to love? I made friends with a pretty girl and now we get to plan a castle break in. This beats the day to day kill, eat and survive.
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.
The lucky ones died in the blasts. They were spared the fate of starvation, cannibalism, rape and slaughter. Where a man could be killed over half-eaten can of corn.
They are as smart as they are ruthless. That's why they've been around for all five years.
Never trust a man who sits, uninvited, at the head of the table in another man's home.
There has to be beauty left in the world, Julia, " said Kiyu. "Otherwise we have nothing.
They were like her rocks. Imperfect and surprising and maybe better in the long run than certainties. Chances, she thought, were life
When you stop being owned by your emotions you'll stop feeling vulnerable to people. ~ Remiel
A leader’s first duty is to look after his or her people, especially those who are sick, hungry, or thirsty.
A joke is a witticism or play on words that’s meant to be funny. I say ‘meant to be’ because most jokes aren’t funny. They range between mildly amusing and grimace-inducingly annoying.
You shouldn’t say mean things to people before they kill you. It’s being a sore loser.
Let them come. We’ve got helicopters, tanks, jets, and big guns. We’ve got armies of robots. What do they have but their stench and the squalor they live in?
There’s a big difference between being numb to something and being immune to it.
