Dystopian Fiction Quotes

It's time, Perry. He let her go. She took a step back, taking in his face one last time. His green eyes. The bend in his nose and the scars on his cheek. All the tiny inperfections that made him beautiful. Without a word, she turned and made her way downhill.

~ Veronica Rossi

That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.

~ Patrick Ness

Their conversation ceased abruptly with the entry of an oddly-shaped man whose body resembled a certain vegetable. He was a thickset fellow with calloused and jaundiced skin and a patch of brown hair, a frizzy upheaval. We will call him Bell Pepper. Bell Pepper sidled up beside The Drippy Man and looked at the grilled cheese in his hand. The Drippy Man, a bit uncomfortable at the heaviness of the gaze, politely apologized and asked Bell Pepper if he would like one. “Why is one of your legs fatter than the other?” asked Bell Pepper. The Drippy Man realized Bell Pepper was not looking at his sandwich but towards the inconsistency of his leg sizes. “You always get your kicks pointing out defects?” retorted The Drippy Man. “Just curious. Never seen anything like it before.” “I was raised not to feel shame and hide my legs in baggy pants.” “So you flaunt your deformity by wearing short shorts?” “Like you flaunt your pockmarks by not wearing a mask?” Bell Pepper backed away, kicking wide the screen door, making an exit to a porch over hanging a dune of sand that curved into a jagged upward jab of rock. “He is quite sensitive,” commented The Dry Advisor. “Who is he?” “A fellow who once manipulated the money in your wallet but now curses the fellow who does.

~ Jeff Phillips

He felt as if he had left a stage behind and many actors. He felt as if he had left the great seance and all the murmuring ghosts. He was moving from an unreality that was frightening into a reality that was unreal because it was new.

~ Ray Bradbury

Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare to speak.

~ Ayn Rand

How do you bear it? Finnick looks at me in disbelief. I don't, Katniss! Obviously, I don't. I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking up. Something in my expression stops him. Better not give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

~ Suzanne Collins

You can keep your paper promisesand all your worldly treasures.But you cannot buy peace of mindor escape from the headstone garden.Lyrics from Headstone Garden by the Troubled Land Band at the Independence Day celebration 12 years after the impact that destroyed civilization.

~ Raymond Dean White

He doesn't trust people because he knows they are all the same. Everyone cares about their own survival and nothing else, just like him. Since he is more than willing to kill for it, so are they. After all, he has endured through all these years, leading him to be alone, it was the only conclusion that made sense.

~ Joe Reyes

When the bombs fell, it wasn't a war; it was an obliteration. No one had any idea who shot first or why.

~ Joe Reyes

He Is looking at me through the smoke, across the fence. He never takes his eyes off me. His hair Is a crown of leaves, of thorns, of flames. His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than we could ever invent If we had ten thousand billion years.

~ Lauren Oliver

... she wore a masterpiece smile with smudges of paint and graphite across her cheek, and her eyes were a Jackson Pollock painting.

~ Ellie Lieberman

They are as smart as they are ruthless. That's why they've been around for all five years.

~ Joe Reyes

If you listen closely you will hear the spirits sigha lesson lost on humans, an enchanting lullaby:Mercy lies in nature’s hands and bound to it we grow.Of the earth we came to be and of the earth we’ll go.

~ Nicoline Evans

I had evolved a year too soon, and it nearly broke me

~ Carlyle Labuschagne

I would rather never make a penny on book sales and know that many had derived some fair pleasure from my writing, than to know that very few had ever taken a chance on my work. I certainly won't last forever, but I'd love to think that my imagination will continue to surface in the minds of others.

~ Eric Diehl

Once upon a time there was war, and starvation, and death. Once upon a time we would kill our brothers and sisters, fearing for our own lives. Once upon a time the characters turned from us, and we wept. Now we do not war, nor do we fear, nor do we weep. We Redact.

~ F.d. Lee

What’s not to love? I made friends with a pretty girl and now we get to plan a castle break in. This beats the day to day kill, eat and survive.

~ Emilyann Girdner

When you stop being owned by your emotions you'll stop feeling vulnerable to people. ~ Remiel

~ Aria J. Wolfe

I am chaos in this ordered society, the flaw in a carefully wrought plan. I am turbulence in the queen's eternal river.

~ Eugie Foster

Pluto claimed that in ancient times, all humans had been a combination of male and female. Each person had two heads, four arms, four legs. Supposedly, these combo-humans had been so powerful they made the gods uneasy, so Zeus split them in half - man and woman. Ever since, humans had felt incomplete. They spent their whole lives searching for their other halves.

~ Rick Riordan

... Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

~ Margaret Atwood

When I watched you dancing that day, I saw something else. I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a harsh, cruel world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go. That is what I saw. It wasn't really you, what you were doing, I know that. But I saw you and it broke my heart.

~ Kazuo Ishiguro

If the world explore all my dark fantasy, will change for the better”.

~ Alexandar Tomov

It was one of those dreams from which she woke up depressed about her reality, filled with a longing that pulled at her insides, wishing the dream could have lasted forever, or at least much longer than it had.

~ Michael Monroe

Never trust a man who sits, uninvited, at the head of the table in another man's home.

~ Cecelia Ahern

Sure, you can break a man. Bend his will, even, but be careful with the ones that break easily. Those are the ones you have to keep a close eye on. Those are the ones that play possum and hide in the shadows. Just waiting for their time to strike! That's when you're most vulnerable. When you're surrounded by friends.

~ Joe Reyes

I was a new person. A new Aurora. I was Aurora of Itchikan City-State.

~ Binta Userkaf

... there are certain questions that must never be asked. Of anyone. Even oneself.

~ Jenny Lynne

A man of peace is guided by peace, but when that peace is threatened, he has a choice to either kneel down and die silently as it falls into chaos, or fight for it and not look back. ~ Ryan Mark, Author

~ Ryan Mark

Biking up the same mile-and-a-half long asphalt hill is so much harder when I know that at the end of the journey I’ll either be an outlaw, or I’ll be dead.

~ E.j. Squires

If we keep punishing people for what their parents or their ancestors have done, the world as a whole can never move forward. Society will never grow.

~ Jennifer Wilson

That’s the funny thing about guns, even untrained hands can feel powerful using them. But take that gun away and you’re left with nothing but a coward whose only skill is how to blindly pull a trigger.

~ Jennifer Wilson

Are you in any pain? (Ariana Skyee)Only my heart. (Cal Remus)

~ Siobhan Davis

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

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

~ Aldous Huxley

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

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

~ Siobhan Davis

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