But he doesn't see what's so great about leaving your mark…

“A glacial chill rushes through Gage. He whips around just in time to see arms clutch Summer around the middle and drag her into…

— Laura Kreitzer

“I put my hand next to his shoulder on the door frame, not touching, but real close. “Look, Blondie. I’m not asking you to…

— Rie Warren

“Her gaze travels back to the lie twisted in a tempest of mud and blood. She witnesses the culmination of her recklessness through a…

— Laura Kreitzer

“Sometimes it takes losing everything to see the truth in nothing, except love, honor, and death.”

— N.J. Paige

“But just being whatever it is that I am . . . I don’t think that makes me a monster. Believe me, I know.…

— Michael Selden

“Struggling transforms her captor into a Chinese finger trap. She’s suffocating. Sucking in air without relief. Her lungs expand. Contract. Expand. They fill with…

— Laura Kreitzer

“It is the right of a free individual to be unhindered in their liberty! Especially to fail in their endeavors! Only in this manner…

— Keith Parfitt

“If that which we have found is the corruption of solitude, then what can men wish for save corruption? If this is the great…

— Ayn Rand

“The king who stepped into the ballroom wearing a green velvet robe and bejeweled crown was none other that the tiger-man who'd prowled through…

— Kat Falls

“Terror builds inside him. The reality that tonight will be his last leaves a sour taste in his mouth. The Tainted will eat him,…

— Laura Kreitzer

I think people respond to dystopian stories because they're ways of acting out anxieties that we have and fears that we have about the…

— Suzanne Collins

The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at…

— George Orwell

Kids' literature now is dystopian, you know.

— John Cameron Mitchell

Writers of feminist dystopian fiction are alert to the realities that grind down women's lives, that make the unthinkable suddenly thinkable.

— Naomi Alderman

“But they promised us everyone would return someday…when it was safe.” Her voice cracked at the end. “You’re being stupid again. Trusting in what…

— T.C. Avey