What have you done? What have you given up?' So many things, Cecily. More than you know.

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.

Follow your passion? Sure...but for most one needs to follow their passion after work and on weekends.

Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string? I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing.

There's no justice in this world.

Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.

Someone need not be perfect to be a great dancer - feeling a soul is more important than what the body can do.

You become what you believe. And to believe that you are created by the power that's greater than yourself means anything is possible.

Have you ever been in love? Stay well clear. It leaves you very bitter and very twisted.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

God will not be behind-hand in love to us: for our drop, we shall receive an ocean.

The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.