His three wives are huddled together on the bare mattress, one of them dying; when we're together, we form an alliance he can't touch. He's scared to even try.

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.

There are two possibilities: accept the reality or change yourself to get ready to accept the reality.

Make your body your prized possession above all physical things. Spare no expense, re-prioritize and invest in your health.

...he considered respect for one's given word as a wealth that should not be squandered.

Moses challenged parents both to teach the faith diligently and to maximize normal encounters or ongoing discussion.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

I work too hard and don't play enough.

I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.

What labels me, negates me.

Turn off your mind, and focus on what you've got to do - task at hand.

Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.