The thing about hope is that it doesn't go away even when it serves no purpose.

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.

When you find that one book, that one that makes you tingle. It's almost like you found a little piece of magic.

Why should I be afraid to trust myself to you? I am not afraid, I have been well brought forward by you...

The magic of autumn has seized the countryside

History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.

The only way to avoid making mistakes is not to do anything. And that will be the ultimate mistake.

By the time I got to high school I knew what I was gonna do. Mainly because I looked around and saw there wasn't much else I was able to do. I was a criminal. I was a juvenile delinquent.

The more we give to others, the more we are increased.

Any quick analysis of a Beatles tune or a Cole Porter tune will reveal often simple but unexpected chords, chords that chromatically shift between keys, or between major and minor.

Old I may be, but, given the chance, I will learn.

I basically put my trust in someone and I was let down.