Dystopian Quotes

“And he leans in, so carefully. Breathing and not breathing and hearts beating between us and he's so close, he's so close and I can't feel my legs anymore. I can't feel my fingers or the cold or the emptiness of this room because all I feel is him, everywhere, filling everything and he whispers

"Please."

He says, "Please don't shoot me for this.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“You cannot thrive under the wrong stars, Kricket… the stars here are in opposition to you… can’t you feel it?… Let us take you home.”
― Amy A. Bartol, Under Different Stars

“You are only partly alive.”
― Ira Levin, This Perfect Day

“If I didn't love so damn hard I
wouldn't have someone to risk my life for.”
― Leslie Lee Sanders, Before the Darkness

“I’ve never been on a bike,” I say. “I mean, I’ve been on a bike but not a motorcycle.”
“And why is that?” he asks.
“Bugs. They get in your mouth, right? That’s just gross.”
Chris makes a face.
“If you ride around with your mouth hanging open, I assume that could be a possibility.”
― Summer Lane, State of Emergency

“He felt like his body had a will of its own. Always looking. Preparing for the only fight that would satisfy him.”
― Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky

“I put my hand next to his shoulder on the door frame, not touching, but real close. “Look, Blondie. I’m not asking you to bottom, just to fucking navigate.”
― Rie Warren, In His Command

“For the first time I had the best of both worlds--a mission to live for and a man to love.”
― Rie Warren, In His Command

“It feels so good to find out I mean everything to the person who means everything to me.”
― Leslie Lee Sanders, Amid the Darkness

“A shiver ran through me. Freaks looked almost human -- and weren't. They had lesions on their skin, razor-sharp teeth, and claws instead of fingernails. I'd heard you could detect them by smell, though in the tunnels, that could be hard.”
― Ann Aguirre, Enclave

“…I wonder what actually this hospital is, why I am in it and who I am. I have no time to find out. I die, with my arms stretched towards the spotlights.
Then whiteness.
My body is still there somewhere…
Buried in the extremely bright lights of empty hope.”
― Alexandar Tomov, Future Gone

“My latest battle had nothing to do with The Company, the rebels, or any other faction. It was out-and-out warfare between my head and my heart. Keeping it cool during daylight, versus nighttime, when I unleashed my passion for him. ... Turned out the Wilderness was a lot more hostile than me.”
― Rie Warren, In His Command

“I knew that feeling, the sense of panic that stretched time, turning seconds into years, and the deep pain that came from being hurt by not one person but many, a gang of bullies that expanded into a neighborhood and then into a community, until you questioned the whole world. And your last thought, as you stretch your arm until your fingers are inches from that lifeline, is how if you survive, you'll find a way to help fix what was broken, so you can say that yes, you want to be part of the world again.”
― Lissa Price, Starters

“I've got my own toilet." -- Grace Harper”
― Christine Amsden, The Immortality Virus

“He watches the sun out of the world and the stars into it and sometimes I wonder if he watches the sun come up again. Is it hard to sleep when you know you are almost at the end? Do you not want to miss a moment, even those that would otherwise seem dull and unremarkable?”
― Aly Condie

“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, Beyond the Darkness

“A simple touch, but it speaks so much to me. It’s the way I would touch Circ—the way he would touch me. More’n a touch—a feeling. These two mean a great deal to each other, that much is as clear as the cloudless sky above us.”
― David Estes, The Earth Dwellers

“So damn pigheaded. I’ve studied you, not to report you, Caspar, but because I want a relationship with you.”
― Rie Warren, In His Command

“Sometimes it takes losing everything to see the truth in nothing, except love, honor, and death.”
― N.J. Paige, Code Human

“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, Capricorn

“Gern hätte er Europa jetzt aus der internationalen Weltraumstation ISS gesehen. Wo sonst die feinen Adern und leuchtenden Knoten des Lichtsystems bis ins All strahlten, musste über weiten Flächen Dunkelheit liegen.”
― Marc Elsberg, Blackout. Morgen ist es zu spät

“I love him, and he loves me. And being together makes even the little things better.”
― Trisha Leigh, Summer Ruins

“Tristan grabs my chin and pulls it toward him and then we’re ripping off our masks and kissing, his lips so soft and yet moving fiercely against mine. I wrap a hand around the back of his head, lace my fingers through his hair, breathe him in, kiss him back. My heart blossoms.”
― David Estes, The Earth Dwellers

“I’m wondering how long I have to deal with this bullshit before I can brief my troops. Oh, and I gotta feed my goldfish. Let’s get this straight, Blondie—”

“Blondie?”

“That’s an insult, not a pet name.”
― Rie Warren, In His Command

“It doesn’t matter where I am, or who I’m with . . . God, Caspar. I’ve dreamed about being with you.”
― Rie Warren, In His Command

“The city is a plague… and I am the penicillin.”
― Jerry J.C. Veit, Capricorn

“He hadn’t realized that the ordinary little things that happened, the ones that took place between the big events while waiting for something more exciting to happen – they were the most important, after all.”
― Helen Smith, The Miracle Inspector

“...the end of the world hasn't granted the clumsiest among us any measure of grace.”
― Patricia Hamill, Fearless

“It's more like an absence of sound, almost like nature holding its breath. Like those corny lines in movies where the hero says, "It's quiet, too quiet.”
― Patricia Hamill, Fearless

“I don't want to think about it, but I have to. Someone has to. I see the signs of spring and I weep...”
― Patricia Hamill, Fearless