“There has to be beauty left in the world, Julia," said Kiyu. "Otherwise we have nothing.” — Aron Christensen Copy Share Image
“I love him, and he loves me. And being together makes even the little things better.” — Trisha Leigh Copy Share Image
I haven't written a novel or something that long, because I really am improvising all along and the story is growing new… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“You attack to protect, not to avenge. You strike to end suffering, not cause it.” — Tiana Dalichov Copy Share Image
“For the first time I had the best of both worlds--a mission to live for and a man to love.” — Rie Warren Copy Share Image
“If this is my final moment,” she says, “then I can die happy.” “Is that why you’re saying all this? Because you… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature. — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I look around, and 50 percent of the big-budget entertainment you are seeing these days is dystopian. This is the era of… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
“Too pissed off to care, Aurelia interrupted him. "No, I will not wait just one moment!" Piercing him with her best scary… — Therisa Peimer Copy Share Image
“It's more like an absence of sound, almost like nature holding its breath. Like those corny lines in movies where the hero… — Patricia Hamill Copy Share Image
“There comes a time when a man must forgo familiarity and venture into uncertainty; risking obscurity, but also quite possibly… finding meaning.” — Jerry J.C. Veit Copy Share Image
“Tristan grabs my chin and pulls it toward him and then we’re ripping off our masks and kissing, his lips so soft… — David Estes Copy Share Image
“Someone who doesn’t know if tomorrow will come would rather live every day twice than live it once.” — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Maligned –powerfully-drawn characters acting out a disturbing view of our future.” -David Compton, New York Times Best-Selling author” — Kathleen Papajohn Copy Share Image
I suspect the popularity of young adults and dystopian novels has something to do with a desire for allegory and old-fashioned morality… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
Live every day as if you've come back in time from a dystopian future to try and prevent everything from breaking. — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
I'm not really interested in the exploding car or endless sort of dystopian fantasies and superheroes. None of that... that doesn't interest… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
“And tomorrow... what? Nobody knows. You understand? Neither I nor anyone else knows. It's unknown. You understand it's come to an end,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Most of us knew in our bones that things with the world weren’t right, long before it became a crisis.” — Pernell Plath Meier Copy Share Image
Much like dystopian and post-apocalyptic books are a way to explore the worst-case scenarios lurking around the corner, fantasy can serve as… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
