You've been captive for so long that you don't even realize you want freedom anymore.

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.

I feel like I’ve been split open and stuffed with sunshine.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Hey. My life’s not all about weird little creatures pretending to be teddy bears.” From Tribe of the Teddy Bear.

It is not in the storm or in the strifeWe feel benumbed and wish to be nor more, But in the after-silence on the shoreWhen all is lost except a little life.

Love is accepting your truest, most authentic expression of self, and allowing yourself to do the same with others.

Truth is fire, and to speak the truth means to shine and to burn

All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I've even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.

What keeps me going is goals.

Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.

If I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I’d choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art.