Dystopia Fiction Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Writing a novel is agony.

George Orwell

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

Cecelia Ahern

#5. Then the Skopamish showed up. Their chests heaving, rotting eyes like dull raisins in their skulls. Their eyes found mine like a witching wand seeking water.

Tamara Rose Blodgett

#6. A glacial chill rushes through Gage. He whips around just in time to see arms clutch Summer around the middle and drag her into the dark. Panic seizes him, and he takes off after her, regardless of the chaos brewing behind him. Her cry of surprise echoes all around them, drilling into his bones.

Laura Kreitzer

#7. A mix of revenge, sadness and anger funnels into a decision that's so simple and neat, it could fit in my pocket. I will help Kudzu destroy Aevum. Just like Magnus destroyed my mother.

Georgia Clark

#8. A twisted, pale figure writhing in agony, chest bare and hideous. Tight, rigid cords of sickly green veins webbed across the boy's body and limbs, like ropes under his skin. Purplish bruises covered the kid, red hives, bloody scratches. His bloodshot eyes bulged, darting back and forth.

James Dashner

#9. My fingers find his. They are warm, pulsing with genetically altered blue blood, powered by mirror matter.

Georgia Clark

#10. I work my way through the rest of my dates, but I'm only there in body. The boys usually give up after the first hour; it's difficult to have a conversation all by yourself. My ratings plummet, but at least my air-time is minimal now, I'm not offering much in the way of entertainment these days.

Siobhan Davis

#11. I fell silent after that. I didn't want to talk about such things anymore, at least today. My chest already hurt and I was trying to keep my mind calm. I didn't want to think of a future so bleak and dark. I had plans for my future and they didn't involve the world ending or society collapsing.

J.M. Northup

#12. Freedom breeds uncertainty; uncertainty invites chaos.

R.J. Leahy

#13. You're a kid. I didn't know we taught kids manners anymore.

Christine Amsden

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

Christine Amsden

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Path is only a name for a place where you find yourself. Where you're going on it is only a story. Where you've been on it is only another. Some of the stories are pleasant ones; some are not. That's dark and light.

John Crowley

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

Erica Lindquist

#19. 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

#20. The antagonists of finance's future, the diaboli ex machina, may have no face at all.

Usman W. Chohan

#21. Mai whispers, "Why did she have to leave? When she was there, I knew where I had her; she was safe."
"You of all people," Nicholas says, "should know that freedom is more important than being safe.

E.J. Squires

#22. I could be listening to Painted Red weave the stories of the saints in her rich roomy voice, and beginning to see how all those stories were in some way one story: a simple story about being alive, and being a man; a story that, simple as it was, couldn't itself be told.

John Crowley

#23. I focus all my energy into become a faster, stronger, and better version of myself.

Georgia Clark

#24. I catch movement from the corner of my eye. A tell slender boy stands near us, just a few feet away. Adrenaline bangs through my system. I shove Abel behind me and whip my knife from where I'd hidden it in my boot. Who the hell are you?

Georgia Clark

#25. This is the legacy of a compassionate bunch. Our fate now rests on the whims of men.

Leot Felton

#26. 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

#27. If you put enough sheep together you have a herd- a force to be reckoned with.

Maria V. Snyder

#28. Ideas combined with courage can change the world.

David Litwack

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

George Orwell

#30. The Suitors Ball is fast approaching and it's a nasty reminder that my suitor will be chosen shortly. I feel sorry for the poor unfortunate guy, whichever one of them it happens to be.

Siobhan Davis

#31. If you listen closely you will hear the spirits sigh
a 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

#32. The better you tell an old story, the more you are talking about right now.

John Crowley

#33. And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.

Ally Condie

#34. 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

#35. Nothing exists except through human consciousness

George Orwell