Rhine. The river that, somewhere out there, has broken 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.

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.

You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.

Life is now in session. Are you present?

You cannot intimidate people with real bullets, but you can intimidate them with fake gun.

For success, focus has utmost importance, but distraction is disastrous.

It don't matter what happens, if you're only srong and have great courage.

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.

Hope gives us something to do when we are afraid of what might happen.

We sit and listen and are enthralled anew, for good stories, it seems, never lose their magic.

When I was 14, I thought I was the coolest kid in school because I told everyone the jokes in FHM.