You’re insane, you know that?” he says. “It’s the only thing keeping me afloat,” I say.

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.

Anyone who shames survivors of trauma and abuse for not healing, is a person who has no compassion for life's suffering

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

She had wailed loudly enough to wake the dead and make them call the cops.

I am, as many people are, inspired by Jack Layton's legacy and the way that he approached politics.

Unless you know yourself as eternal beings, part of the whole, you will remain afraid of death.

When you envision yourself doing something, you'll be surprised at how much that helps you to actually do it.

I try to ride my horses three times a week. It's nice to be out in nature, where you can't take a phone call.