And if I have to die trying, I will get out of here.

Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.

Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.

Dystopian, by definition, promises a darker story.

I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.

Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.

There's a hazy smile on her lips that won't go away, and her hair is a mess. It's like a brushfire filled with casualties.

‎I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.

We writers are resilient souls.

Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free.

Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination.

Do you realize how hard it is to keep your mind clear when somebody’s telling you to keep your mind clear?

A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.

It was really cool being out on the road and doing school with my tutor over Skype or on the phone, but it can definitely be difficult.

I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

Do not compare yourself to others. You have a unique destiny and mission that only you can accomplish.

Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves.

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

Love is the thing that you pursue because it's the thing that gives you all this life, or you believe that, anyway.