“Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The better you tell an old story, the more you are talking about right now.” — John Crowley Copy Share Image
“Perhaps every society is a utopia when you fail to peel up all the layers and look at what's underneath” — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Don't look like you're going to cry all the time." She scowled. "Tears are one of their favourite drinks around here.” — L.C. Perry Copy Share Image
“This is the legacy of a compassionate bunch. Our fate now rests on the whims of men.” — Leot Felton Copy Share Image
“...because of the foulness of her mother's emotional river, a current which ran swift, changing its path without warning...” — Tamara Rose Blodgett Copy Share Image
“Blessed are the wealthy, for theirs is the kingdom of influence and abundance.” — H.M. Forester Copy Share Image
“Everything is more whole in the end when you forgo destruction and instead repair, he reasoned. But some things can’t be repaired.… — Megan Tennant Copy Share Image
“I catch movement from the corner of my eye. A tell slender boy stands near us, just a few feet away. Adrenaline… — Georgia Clark Copy Share Image
“path is only a name for a place where you find yourself. Where you're going on it is only a story. Where… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
“The paths people choose in life can lead to the creation or destruction of people, places, things, and relationships. The future is… — Stephen Black Copy Share Image
“Life’s a no-rules cage fight.” That’s what Alex used to say—back when he still had fire in his eyes, when it sounded… — Slava Pilotoff Copy Share Image
...I've spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that has been lauded as… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“This was what they’d been told all along in the army: “It’s us or them. War’s coming. No way around it.” And… — Slava Pilotoff Copy Share Image
“That’s the funny thing about guns; even untrained hands can feel powerful using them. But take that gun away and you’re left… — Jennifer Wilson Copy Share Image
“All the enormous machines that keep full Citizens comfortable far above us in their glittering towers, all the infrastructure of power, of… — Julio-Alexi Genao Copy Share Image
“The six stories of dirt and mile of distance between us and the Citizens of Iris is far from insurmountable, but we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Creed must have responded in kind, because with a gasp, she broke off the kiss. Time crawled to a standstill, then shifted… — Paula Altenburg Copy Share Image
“And of course she had studied the civilization that had immediately preceded her own - the civilization that had mistaken the functions… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Big discoveries call for even bigger responsibility, since they come with the biggest hazards, if they get into the wrong hands. As… — Sima B. Moussavian Copy Share Image
“Suddenly exhausted, she closes her eyes and slips into nightmares again. Graveyards rising out of the ocean. Her friends’ corpses in the… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
“To attribute these two great developments to the Central Committee, is to take a very narrow view of civilization. The Central Committee… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“It may be that the best we can hope for when it comes to utopias is that they be held at arm's… — Edward Rothstein Copy Share Image
“Their conversation ceased abruptly with the entry of an oddly-shaped man whose body resembled a certain vegetable. He was a thickset fellow… — Jeff Phillips Copy Share Image
“The collective sign of relief heaved on V-J Day ought to have inspired Hollywood to release a flood of "happily ever after"… — Eddie Muller Copy Share Image
“Maybe it's ALWAYS the end of the world. Maybe you're alive for a while, and then you realize you're going to die,… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“What makes us the strongest tribe on the continent is the fact that a group that opposes these values--a group that would… — Lia Habel Copy Share Image
“Perfect crime,' he said softly. 'Yes?' 'Persuade an innocent, idealistic young girl that the future of the human race depends on her… — Jane Rogers Copy Share Image
“The world is not sliding, but galloping into a new transnational dystopia. This development has not been properly recognized outside of national… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
“HECUBA: I had a knife in my skirt, Achilles. When Talthybius bent over me, I could have killed him. I wanted to.… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“Inside the room there sat a rocker, which she sat on, and which had rocked her while she sipped the beer, because… — Justin Dobbs Copy Share Image
