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He never realized how noisy American silence was until all the gadgets died. — Marcus Sakey

He saw the rules of life clearly for the first time and they were simple: it was a game where Death was the only winner. — Sharon Sant

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

Find our way out, Greenie. Solve the buggin' Maze and find our way out. — James Dashner

I would kill for a cheeseburger. Honestly. If I stumbled across someone eating a cheeseburger, I would kill them for it. — Rick Yancey

So as near as I could tell the end of the world began roughly about the time that Billy Carver's butt rang about halfway through the War of 1812. — Steve Vernon

My fingers find his. They are warm, pulsing with genetically altered blue blood, powered by mirror matter. — Georgia Clark

This was my world: cold, tangled and distorted. -Keira — S.L. Wallace

Ideas combined with courage can change the world. — David Litwack

For one last time, I said my goodbyes to the place I'd known as home for the last decade, and for the first time, I welcomed the unknown. — Nicole Sobon

It helps if you don't think of them as human. More than one officer has called this job pest control. — Christine Amsden

Perhaps every society is a utopia when you fail to peel up all the layers and look at what's underneath — Kameron Hurley

Only the sweetest of the sweet would bring brownies to the apocalypse. — Shelly Crane

You don't have to keep living in a dystopia simply because you're strong and noble enough to accept it. — A.J. Darkholme

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing. — Daniel H. Wilson

The antagonists of finance's future, the diaboli ex machina, may have no face at all. — Usman W. Chohan

Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions. — Anthony Horowitz

In the future, violence would clearly become a valuable form of social cement. — J.G. Ballard

Sadie gave her head an exaggerated scratch. 'Don't come too close if you know what's good for you, these nits are on steroids. — Sharon Sant

I think that sometimes the only real thing is now. — Suzanne Young

And it is strange that absence can feel like presence. — Ally Condie

The main element crucial for the survival of life is also a demon in disguise; it will snatch your life away as quickly as you were given it. — Scott A. Butler

If love dies, that's when we've all truly died. — Keary Taylor

Wishing for something doesn't mean you should have it, and saying something doesn't necessarily make it true. — Paula Altenburg

The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own. — Ally Condie

There is no sanctity. This is the downfall of innocence. — Nadege Richards

Modesty is invisibility ... Never forget it. To be seen - to be seen - is to be ... penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable. — Margaret Atwood

People are torn between the pathetic safety of not knowing, and the desire to know. — Lawrence Thornton

Freedom breeds uncertainty; uncertainty invites chaos. — R.J. Leahy

Moreover, people have become accustomed to reading to escape as opposed to reading to think. — Leigh M. Lane

It was a room full of ghosts, arranged in readiness for days that would never happen. — Sharon Sant

A fictional Dystopia is better than a fake Utopia. — Robert Friedrich

Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator. — J.G. Ballard

There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'. — Philip K. Dick

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past. — Lois Lowry

This is the legacy of a compassionate bunch. Our fate now rests on the whims of men. — Leot Felton

For whom, it suddenly occured to him to wonder, was he writing this diary? For the future, for the unborn. — George Orwell

Time for the world to end. — Rick Yancey

His truths may hurt me, but at least I know that they're truths. My mom and Cameron felt the need to make me feel better. He has no such obligation. — M.K. Sutherland

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

What we are probably given is a mixture of truth and untruth. It's anybody's guess as to which part is which and how much there is of each. — Ira Levin

Because of the foulness of her mother's emotional river, a current which ran swift, changing its path without warning ... — Tamara Rose Blodgett

Edward Bellamy's eugenic utopian novel, "Looking Backward" was the inspiration for American Progressivism. — A.E. Samaan

The zoo grounds reeked of desolation, but the silence had an undercurrent, a silvery vibe, like the hush of a concert hall just before the first note. — Suki Michelle

His eyes met mine. Brown eyes. I couldn't read anything and as he turned away I realised he didn't intend to tell me anything either. — J.A. Rogers

Nothing exists except through human consciousness — George Orwell

Impossible is such a stupid word. — Tahereh Mafi

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

My tears had unexpectedly become real. — S.L. Wallace

I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight. — Margaret Atwood

I plant a gentle parting kiss on his lips, our strategy is well and truly screwed at this stage anyway. We barely lasted a day. — Siobhan Davis

At the very moment when man is on the verge of realizing his hope, he begins to lose it. — Erich Fromm

I know who I am, and I'm being true to myself. — S.L. Wallace

People are just people, no matter what their career or social standing may be. -Guy — S.L. Wallace

I'm a wanted fugitive, and you're an upstanding bachelor of the year! — S.L. Wallace

Every eutopia contains a dystopia, every dystopia contains a eutopia. In — Thomas More

How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times
Creation's mighty seed -
For Man has broke the Fellowship
With murder, lust, and greed. — Margaret Atwood

I'm a writer; as soon as I imagine what would happen if I found the fountain of youth, it turns into a dystopia in my head. — Marie Brennan

I can almost see the processes whirrling clunkily in his singularix, as his excited nervous system battled with his logic circuits. — Georgia Clark

Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives. — J.G. Ballard

The future is always a dystopia in movies. — Alex Cox

If you put enough sheep together you have a herd- a force to be reckoned with. — Maria V. Snyder

Where did Wayne Newton go when the USA went to shit? I was more stoned than I had realized. — James Howard Kunstler

You'd be surprised what I can do with a butter knife. — S.L. Wallace

He tried. That's the big thing. He tried to do the best he could with what God gave him. He should get a nice raise for trying so hard. — Kurt Vonnegut

It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow. — Hugh Howey

Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles — Tahereh Mafi

You're a kid. I didn't know we taught kids manners anymore. — Christine Amsden

Anything but chicken, and some honesty on the side, please. — S.L. Wallace

I'll go over again and again until I've finally crossed to where he is — Ally Condie

There was something called Christianity. — Aldous Huxley

Society can serve its citizens only to the extent that it knows them. — David Marusek

From our myopia arose our dystopia. — Anthony Marais

Life involves a lot of unknowns. — S.L. Wallace

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him? — Anthony Burgess

We urgently need to do - and I mean actually do - something radical to avert a global catastrophe. But I don't think we will.
I think we're fucked. — Stephen Emmott

Every dystopia is masked by a utopia. — Mackenzie Draman

Dystopia is my playground. — Jean Nicole Rivers

All utopias are dystopias. The term "dystopia" was coined by fools that believed a "utopia" can be functional. — A.E. Samaan

Her life was not yet over, she decided. It just felt this way. — Hugh Howey

Oh, I wonder if there's another way. — S.L. Wallace

I focus all my energy into become a faster, stronger, and better version of myself. — Georgia Clark

We're more alike than you realize. — S.L. Wallace

dystopia, a reliably clean, well-lighted place. — Kate Atkinson

Because King Silas
always gets what he wants, even if he doesn't want
anything more than to fuck with you. — Quil Carter

Her demon had pursued and seduced him. She hoped he hadn't placed too much importance on that. — Paula Altenburg

That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide. — Eugene Ionesco

They say that when people still rode on vehicles powered by oil, they could go anywhere they wanted. — Yoshiyuki Sadamoto

The wren goes to't — Emily St. John Mandel

Writing a novel is agony. — George Orwell

The better you tell an old story, the more you are talking about right now. — John Crowley

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization. — Jacques Ellul

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives ... — Stephen King

Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce. — Tad Williams

Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith — Yevgeny Zamyatin

The greywastes was a basin overflowing with insanity, the very earth underneath me was only surviving because it was too mad to know it had died — Quil Carter