I never wanted to live forever," she says. "I just wanted enough time.

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.

If you leave this world without solving the problems for which you were born, then you are a failure.

Donit kill her now, just when we've gone to all that trouble to rescue her, " said Jeffrey.

The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.

I remember having computers at my parents' house growing up. We had different desktop PCs, but my first laptop was an IBM ThinkPad laptop. It was big, bulky, slow and terrible.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it's to raise kids who become great adults.

Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

Whatever I believed, I did; I did with my whole heart and mind as far as possible to do so.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.

I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.