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

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.

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

We are stronger than we've credited ourselves to be. We have been the victims and the witnesses. We have said a lifetime of good-byes.

sometimes all we need to be able to continue aloneare the deadrattling the wallsthat close us in.

Sophie clutched Grant tighter. 'I don’t know what screwed-up messages from your family are floating around in your head right now, but you’re staying right here.

The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints.

He is dead already who doth not feel Life is worth living still.

A person creating a space in his life for something that he doesn’t deserve at all gets readily someone whom he doesn’t desire in all.

The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these rude and fierce manners.

I'il n'est pas en notre pouvoir de changer la nature des choses. Il faut les йtudier telles qu'elles sont.

You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger.

I will get married soon. It is in the pipeline. I believe in the institution of marriage.

Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time.