That’s what’s new. There used to be the option of opting out. But now that’s over. Completion is the end. We’re closing the circle around everyone—it’s a totalitarian nightmare.

Why shouldn’t your curiosity about the world be rewarded?

There’s less need to slowly acclimate these guys to the tank, ” Bailey said. “They’ll be food pretty soon, so their happiness is less important than the shark’s.

This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.

Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape.

Director of Ensuring the Future

Grief doesn't arrive on schedule, as much as we'd like to.

Suffering is only suffering if it's done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain. It was communion.

For a moment, she thought it natural in a way seeing a plane fall from the sky can seem natural, too. The horror comes later.

I want to be seen. I want proof I existed.

This democracy thing, or Demoxie, whatever it is, good god. Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes.

Breathing towards a more peaceful day" Pudge xo

Some people will never know how close they really were to success because they threw in the towel right before their big break.

We all have our demons, it is not anyone else's duty to validate them.

Marriage is an exercise in torture.

How can you beat someone thats already lost everything?

In statistics, what disappears behind rows of numbers is death.

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

Living frugally is one of the best things an author can do to prepare for their career.

Some things can’t be ignored. You can only conquer your past if you choose to face it.

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.