Dystopian Science Fiction Quotes

“She lowers the volume of this Safe and Top-Trending song titled... "Love Ain’t No Thang But a Chicken Wang.” ”
― Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black: A novel

“Promise me, if this is the end of us, let it be the beginning of the revolution.”
― Carl Novakovich, The Watchers: The Tomb

“In twenty-four hours we have gone through more than anyone else has - I'm sure of it. But does that bind two people? Or does that just make us survivors?”
― Carl Novakovich, The Watchers: The Tomb

“Dear, my life is just as confined as yours, but I am all right with it. Who knows what’s out there. We are all meant for different things. But if something piques your interest, then perhaps you are one of those to find out what can still your heart.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“What am I doing here? The same thing all of you men are: getting prepared for the final war with the Empians.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“I cannot go about killing people that do not know me or know of me. I do not kill for pleasure, or on impulse, but for survival and for necessity. That is what the wolf has taught me, and that is the way of all living things.”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“Never say that you’re useless! I’ve seen more courage tonight from you than I have ever seen in someone in my entire life; you were ready to fight those Kins to certain death! Now get up!”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“Are you a coy woman, spinning me tales to thwart my understanding until you have me by the last of my existence?”
― Marie Montine, Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga

“There's ugliness in beauty, but there's also beauty in ugliness...

We may be monsters, but we are each other's monster.”
― L. Grey S., His WildFlower

“Our society is in the midst of mental slavery, on the cusp of physical. We are the checks and balances of society…Revolutions begin here.”—- Alexander”
― James Farris, Red X Revolution

“There’s ugliness in beauty, but there’s also beauty in ugliness’

‘We may be monsters, but we are each other’s monsters”
― L. Grey S., His WildFlower

“Dr. Obama had that same trick of looking at you so sadly that you felt sorrier for her than for yourself.”
― David Gerrold, A Matter for Men

“We are in this together, remember? When you fall apart, I will pick you up, just as you have done for me a million times before.”
― Annabel den Dekker, Ailene

“Because in the end, that’s all you have. It’s not about endings, happy or sad. It’s about the time in between.”
― Annabel den Dekker, Ailene

“They wore full-coverage raid suits, thick-filtered helmets, their gloves embellished with a ridge of claw-like, upturned hooks along each knuckle, all emblazoned with the logo of Atlas—Greek Titan of Endurance—shouldering the world in a neon blue silhouette.”
― Dixon Reuel, Powdered Souls, A Short Story: They Decided to Survive

“For a split second, I was about to do it.
Drop bombs on innocent people.
Kill innocent people.”
― Jaya Robinson, The Butterfly Effect

“I needed to go far, far away. I needed to see my mother. See her face, hear her voice. The image of her flooded my mind: her dark skin, her sweet voice, but her face was soon replaced by Ms. Han's Asian features, her harsh voice barking orders.”
― Jaya Robinson, The Butterfly Effect

“That afternoon was tranquil at Fort Robinson, everyone in the barracks went their separate ways. Alexa had classes, Blue had ship handling, Jack was helping in the mess hall, Sam had leadership class, and of course, I had therapy.”
― Jaya Robinson, The Butterfly Effect

“Now, with the team fully intact, we were ready to end this once and for all . . . .”
― Jaya Robinson, The Butterfly Effect

“Barb saw the choreography of the upcoming fight unfold before her inner eye as if the combatants were actors belting taped marks.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Hammered

“Leah and I connect, and we have since she was barely old enough to grab my finger and stare deeply into my eyes. There’s something about her that reminds me of Nell, come to think of it. Wide-eyed wonder and a whim of carbon steel.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Hammered

“For Leah. Yes. Because for her, I would crawl through fire.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Hammered

“Sorry doesn’t cut it in my world. Pay me back, or get the hell out of my life.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Hammered

“Nobody was anything anymore.”
― David Gerrold, A Matter for Men

“The Aggregated Press has just learned the breakaway Rebel area now calling itself the “Democratic Republic of Florida'' has received official Sovereignty and Nation-State status from Russia, the Republic of Liberated Cuba, the Indian Ocean Cooperative Alliance, the Democratic Free States of Africa, as well as from a group collectively known as “Free” Europe. There were two abstentions from this group: Iceland and The Vatican.”
― C. Elmon Meade, The Demagogue Wars

“Rainbow Days by Stewart Stafford

They make us live in monochrome,
Autoerotic under a mirrored dome,
Regurgitating back this non-entity,
Inside I scream it's the death of me.

In between bouts of colon screening,
Rainbow days in a third eye's gleaming,
Silence a throbbing executioner's drum,
Brass muffling the demagogue's hum.

Shattered manacles I'm going to see,
As I'm leaving this world for infinity,
Christen horror hurricanes after me,
On submerged planet earth, Terra-Firma-On-Sea.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved”
― Stewart Stafford

“Our teacher, Professor Adam, doesn’t know we’re just going through the motions. He doesn’t understand that nothing he’s saying really matters anymore. This classroom, and everything that happens inside it, once seemed big and important. Now it all seems silly and insignificant. I try to pay attention, because we’re supposed to, but my mind can’t focus on the present. It’s too busy thinking about the future. A future where every life in this room is in jeopardy.”
― J.W. Lynne, Above the Sky

“We stood in the sunlight, staring into the room. The fountain looked dulled, more bone than pearl, more wear and tear than contortion--puppets lose their charm when the master is in view.”
― David Aumelas, The Triangle Age

“A robot shares everything with the Hive. A robot has nothing to hide.”
― Lee Bacon, The Last Human: A Novel

“Paradise is murder.”
― Bibiana Krall, Axon Drift