Dystopian Fiction Quotes

Sound bytes. Catch phrases. Sales pitches. Words. All lexical legitimizing. ‘A rose by any other name…’ he said. In the end it’s all propaganda.

J.A. Willoughby

You think that because I am unwanted, because I am neglected and-and discarded-" My voice inches higher with every word, the unrestrained emotions suddenly screaming through my lungs. "You think I don't have a heart? You think I don't feel? You think that because I can inflict pain, that I should? You're just like everyone else. You think I'm a monster just like everyone else. You don't understand me at all.

Tahereh Mafi

Fantastic,” I said without an ounce of enthusiasm. “I’m just one more embarrassing confession away from taking over the world.” --Spencer Nye

Jason Letts

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides of a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget that their is such a thing as war. If the government if inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it.

Ray Bradbury

My chest tightens to the point I fear my heart will suffocate from the pressure of it. Society's standards are the total opposite from how I was raised. The boy who I thought to be so strikingly handsome has less than a year of his life to live, my new friend only a few more months beyond that. Yet they are living these uneventful lives in which they don't think there is a reason for anything. Will I ever see my mother again, or is this how I will be forced to live the rest of my life, as well?

Jen Naumann

It feels so good to find out I mean everything to the person who means everything to me.

Leslie Lee Sanders

And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.

Ally Condie

Writing is emotional...it is baring your soul to the world and waiting for someone to acknowledge and love it, or shun and hate it, or worse be indifferent about it.

Anne-Rae Vasquez

Erik wondered if they saw the irony of such a tiny complex expecting to find the cure from the very lives they minimized in comparison to the whole. If such small, little lives mattered not, how could they believe anything they did would matter?

Ellie Lieberman

I’m thinking ahead, imagining what our lives together would be like once we’re free from this hell and allowed to live and let go. You know? Really let go of our pain and finally enjoy each other … you and me.

Leslie Lee Sanders

Prince Maxon surveyed the room and found me. Our eye met for a moment, and he smiled.

Kiera Cass

Ideas combined with courage can change the world.

David Litwack

But he couldn’t risk taking the helmet off. It was the only thing saving him from the firing squad. He was no longer able to keep his thoughts silent. No longer able to squash his misgivings about what he had done.

T.C. Avey

The law isn't merciful.

Cate Campbell Beatty

Nature is cheaper than therapy.

M.P. Zarrella

The lucky ones died in the blasts. They were spared the fate of starvation, cannibalism, rape and slaughter. Where a man could be killed over half-eaten can of corn.

Joe Reyes

I have been speaking to you all of your life. In the gurgle of a tide pool, I breathed myself into you. I drew you down from the trees and I lifted you onto your feet. I freed your hands to become your tools so that you would cradle me in my old age, but you have turned on me. My strongest warrior for life, you have been transformed into an insatiable messenger of death. Only a few of my children are still listening when I howl to them, crying in the night, sending the oceans in great surges to cleanse my land -- to cleanse, and to warn you who no longer listen. I WILL BE HEARD.

Sarah Warden

It’s degrading being routinely subjected to a battery of medical tests to ensure I continue to deserve a place in this new world.

Siobhan Davis

Everybody stood dead still. It was as if now that we were about to get out of the Tower for the first time since the flood, we were scared, like we were crossing some line that we wouldn’t be able to uncross.--Greenleigh

B.E. Scully

It had been along time since I breached the surface of the world above. My parents wouldn’t allow it. So as far as I knew, the survivors that remained were savages. I’d seen a few things before our colony was built and most of the inhabitants left ran wildly through the bare, desert terrain, filth covering them from head to toe, bones protruding their leathery skin, and foam dripping from their mouths in search of one thing…Nourishment.

Lauren Hammond

They were like her rocks. Imperfect and surprising and maybe better in the long run than certainties. Chances, she thought, were life

Veronica Rossi

What I always hate is when people call our movement a 'revolution'. For this to be a revolution, we would have to be opposing a standing government. Look around; there is no standing government.

Joe Reyes

I would cry if I could, but instead I just feel my heart rip apart.

Siobhan Davis

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 the heart of the crystal.

George Orwell

There has to be beauty left in the world, Julia," said Kiyu. "Otherwise we have nothing.

Erica Lindquist

Not many people bothered to look for beauty beyond the greenhouses. They went about life with their heads down, just praying to get through the day, to feed themselves and their family. No one ever did anything to make it better.

Erica Lindquist

Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.

Aldous Huxley

But a thought swarmed in me; what if he, this yellow-eyed being – in his ridiculous, dirty bundle of trees, in his uncalculated life – is happier than us?

Yevgeny Zamyatin

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Aldous Huxley

Mortal has not been a habitable place for a long time. We have been trying to survive patching it but one day it will break completely. Twinmortal is the future for all of us. You will achieve that future for us by learning has much as you can.

Carolina Cody Aldaz

Don’t stay with someone who drives you crazy. Find someone who keeps you sane.

Michael Monroe

Well, for one, you walk around like you’re so much better than everyone else. We’re all a bunch of soulless animals or somethin’ in your eyes, I guess. You’re the high and mighty one and I ain’t fit to drink your piss.

Michael Monroe

We don’t want our politicians bending to the whims of whichever corporation has the money to pay them off.

Michael Monroe

People didn’t love all of this when they still had it. If you love something, you do what’s best for it. You don’t destroy it.

Michael Monroe

Well one tiny poisonous spider can kill a very large man if it bites him in the right place.

Michael Monroe

The storage capacity of the average human brain is two-hundred and fifty-six exabytes. However, the average adult human only uses approximately one billionth of that storage space effectively. This means my knowledge capacity is approximately three thousand trillion times that of your average human.

Michael Monroe

A leader’s first duty is to look after his or her people, especially those who are sick, hungry, or thirsty.

Michael Monroe

Ask very pointed questions. Sharp as sword blades, or laser blasts, if you catch my meaning.

Michael Monroe

That’s what you people do, isn’t it? Make assumptions and sell them to impressionable idiots.

Michael Monroe

Money is a tool we use to reach certain ends. Nothing more, nothing less. It’s hard to come by, though, so when opportunities arise, we need to make the most of them.

Michael Monroe

We need to keep government small, but we also need to keep the influence of big business small, and we need to keep the power in the hands of the people, where it belongs. Big government and big business aren’t the only two alternatives.

Michael Monroe

That was a double negative, Jemail. By saying that you haven’t seen nobody, you’re actually saying that you have seen somebody.

Michael Monroe

Let them come. We’ve got helicopters, tanks, jets, and big guns. We’ve got armies of robots. What do they have but their stench and the squalor they live in?

Michael Monroe

There’s a big difference between being numb to something and being immune to it.

Michael Monroe

Well you know what they say. It’s always raining somewhere.

Michael Monroe

You’ll find a way. You’ll always find a way. And on the rare occasions when you can’t, you’ll have friends who will.

Michael Monroe

Humans have been doin’ awful things to each other throughout history. Humanity’s not as great as you make it out to be. I do what needs to be done, and that’s that. We’re about to go to war, Earl. There ain’t no humanity in war.

Michael Monroe

We all end up dying in the end. It’s just a question of how and when.

Michael Monroe

As far as I know, there’s nothing more dangerous than a man who doesn’t care if he lives or dies.

Michael Monroe

A good friend is someone who gets ya drunk and then walks ya home afterwards.

Michael Monroe

Everyone has the right to believe whatever he or she wants. Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Pagans, atheitsts, and every other religion. People can follow whichever they choose. Even if you and I believe Christianity is the truth, we must allow others to choose their own beliefs. You can’t force anyone to believe something they don’t, anyway.

Michael Monroe

Our world must be hell, then. It must be the hell of some other place where all of us committed atrocious sins of some sort, and now we’re stuck here until we die and either come back or are whisked off to some other hell. It couldn’t be worse than this one, though.

Michael Monroe

He could argue a case for anything, but that doesn’t change the fact he’s wrong most of the time.

Michael Monroe

If the only option you leave poor people with is to resort to violence in order to survive, they’ll do just that. And there are lots more poor people in this world than there are rich ones.

Michael Monroe

A joke is a witticism or play on words that’s meant to be funny. I say ‘meant to be’ because most jokes aren’t funny. They range between mildly amusing and grimace-inducingly annoying.

Michael Monroe

You shouldn’t say mean things to people before they kill you. It’s being a sore loser.

Michael Monroe

I won’t pressure you, Ari, but I’m not opposed to subtle acts of persuasion.

Siobhan Davis

Never take offense. Even if someone is robbing you blind, it’s usually nothing personal. Survival is a funny thing, and we all react differently to it. Some react to fear and forget to be human and humane, but that doesn’t mean they have malicious intentions. People have different boundaries, and I promise to respect yours, hon.

J.D. Brewer

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

Aldous Huxley

They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead.

Stephen King

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