She's beautiful and graceful, and she is very compassionate and loyal when you aren't responsible for the murder of her family.

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.

Count your blessings as the more you are grateful for what you have the more there is to be grateful for.

The world is a mirror of ourselves.

...being "rather unique" is no more possible than being rather pregnant.

What does the novel do? It tells beautiful, shapely lies which enclose hard, exact truths.

The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life, and also a personal life, complete with noncompetitive leisure, has never really taken hold.

In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.

An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth, Honesty, Justice and so on).

The smile of God is the goal of your life.

Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.

Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire.