Eventually I realize that I am holding on to him just as tightly as he holds on to me. And here we are: two small dying things, as the world ends around us like falling autumn leaves.

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.

Stop being okay with the norm, seek to transform.

So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now.

Art is living stopped for a moment of wonder.

This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.

A smile is so sexy, yet so warm. When someone genuinely smiles at you, it's the greatest feeling in the world.

I want to be up there, being lauded and applauded and given all these and on the red carpet, waving at the hordes of people.

How can you admit that your only hope is divine grace and then throw condemnation at another sinner when you see them struggle?

Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.

Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.

Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.