There’s a limit to how much living can be done in a life without freedom.

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.

Great results, can be achieved with small forces.

Sometimes they [people] throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them.

It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.

Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much.

We approach closer and closer to socialism.

If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.

Our beliefs are what create our experiences. As we change our beliefs, we alter our perception, our version of reality.

People of faith find themselves marginalized and ridiculed. In a nation where our coins carry the motto, 'In God We Trust...'

When we give from a place of love, rather than from a place of expectation, more usually comes back to us than we could ever have imagined.