She would do anything, anything to belong to his son after a lifetime of belonging to no one at all.

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 might be a legend one day if you just keep your head to the ground and never get overzealous and start thinking you've outdone yourself. That's the space I try to stay in.

Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.

Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once.

I’ll sum up the key to success in one word: generosity.

Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.

The only way to kill militancy, to reduce it, is to provide opportunities to people who have no opportunities. I've always told my American friends that.

I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.

Christ came from God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him.