#dystopia

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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


#letting-go #romance #under-the-never-sky #young-adult #beauty

That what?" "That I knew i misjudged you. That you love him. I'm not saying In what way. Maybe you don't know yourself. But anyone paying attention could see how much you care about him," he says gently.


Suzanne Collins


#friendship #grief #loss #friendship

It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.


George Orwell


#fear-of-the-future #inequality #poverty #society #imagination

...I've spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that has been lauded as "the sport of the future" since 1977. Thankfully, that future dystopia has never come.


Chuck Klosterman


#future #humor #soccer #sports #humor

If you see us among scores of women, will you look upon us? We shall look upon you, Liberty 5-3000, if we see you among all the women of the earth.


Ayn Rand


#love #love

It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I know that everything I say will be directly taken out on Peeta. Result in his torture. But not his death, no nothing so merciful as that. Snow will ensure that his life is much worse than death.


Suzanne Collins


#dystopia-fiction #heart-ache #teen-fiction #worried-about-others #death

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


#liberty #spying #surveillance #surveillance-society #technology

Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.


George Orwell


#enemy

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.


George Orwell


#dystopia #first-sentence #opening-lines #day

Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.


Veronica Roth


#reason