The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.
Lois LowryTags: life future dystopia sci-fi utopia the-giver
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 MichelleTags: dystopia ya urban-fantasy
Oh that voice, so sweet. Rich, like the taste of vanilla ice cream, vowels like flute music, warm caramel consonants. She could float in that voice forever and not miss a thing.
Suki MichelleTags: dystopia ya urban-fantasy
...because of the foulness of her mother's emotional river, a current which ran swift, changing its path without warning...
Tamara Rose BlodgettTags: paranormal-romance dystopia ya post-apocalyptic alpha-male steampunk-romance descriptive-prose from-review savage-series the-pearl-savage
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 BlodgettTags: war fantasy paranormal-romance science-fiction dystopia futuristic zombies
Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles
Tahereh MafiTags: inspirational love hate dystopia young-adult shatter-me
But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
E.M. ForsterTags: dystopia
Eric, you need to look at the whole picture," the PM said. "You look at the jobless as a huge pile of scrap and you're looking for what can be recycled. That's good. That's your job. But what you don't realise is that this pile of scrap itself serves a purpose. I need my zeros, Eric. They put fear in people; fear of crime and terrorism. They are a stark reminder to the stakeholders that what they despise today, they may end up joining tomorrow. It keeps them obedient. Remember that!
Mark CantrellTags: society satire science-fiction dystopia government unemployment
He said it hit him travelling one time in the year or so before he met my mother. Whatever country of the world it was, the poor were starting to look alike, live alike, eat alike, and dress alike in the same kind of clothes all made in the same part of China. To him, it was a sign that the people had got severed from the land.
Marcel TherouxTags: dystopia disaster peoples
Gods have become like us, ergo, we have become like gods. And to you, my unknown planetary readers, we will come to you, to make your life as divinely rational and exact as ours.
Yavgeny Zamyatin -WeTags: freedom revolution dystopia
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