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“Loneliness is a form of narcissism. A mother who is in harmony with her child, who understands her place in her child's life and her role in society, is never lonely. Through caring for her child, all her needs are fulfilled.”
― Jessamine Chan, The School for Good Mothers

“Harmful literature is more useful than useful literature, for it is antientropic, it is a means of combating calcification. ...It is utopian, absurd. ...It is right 150 years later.'

-from 'On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters' as read in the introduction to Mirra Ginsburg's translation of 'We.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“It gets a little tedious after all these years, but there are much worse games to play.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Hard to describe what those next years felt like to live through. Except as a hollowing out, a loss beyond repair...even as it kept begging to be repaired. While the promise of what had been so very close haunted me. In so many ways.

"So much in motion, such energy, it disguised the decay of things, the incremental rot. How much was hollowed out."

Impossible to tell how fast society was collapsing because history had been riddled through with disinformation, and reality was composed of half-fictions and full-on paranoid conspiracy theories. You couldn't figure out if collapse was a cliff or a gentle slope because all the mental constructs obscured it. Multinationals kept their monopolies, shed jobs or even their identities, but most did not go under. Governments became more autocratic, on average.

Here was fine, there was a disaster. But here was just a different kind of disaster. A thick mist drenched in the smoke of flares that kept curling back on us. Why fight a mist if all that lay ahead was more of the same?

Those of us who survived the pandemic, and all the rest, passed through so many different worlds. Like time travelers. Some of us lived in the past. Some in the present, some in an unknowable future. If you lived in the past, you disbelieved the conflagration reflected in the eyes of those already looking back at you. You mistook the pity and anger, how they despised you. How, rightly, they despised you.

So we stitched our way through what remained of life. The wounds deeper. The disconnect higher.

The shock that shattered our bones yet left us standing.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander

“Philippa Audu stands in the cemetery over a plaque. There's no body beneath her hooves. One of the perks of a cannibal society: very few bodies to bury or take up room.”
― Christina D.Z.A. Marie

“The pitter patter of the rain raps against the jungle rock. No thunder, just a soft drizzle. Elena gazes out from her hood into the Mega City ruins, lost and forgotten, reclaimed by overgrowing foliage. Leaves battered by raindrops rustle around her. Soon I will have to go without him, she thinks. Hidden eyes seem to watch her, then she remembers her brother’s words: Never hunt alone, especially at night.”
― Julian Fernandes, Sparrows

“There are a few unfortunate souls on the streets as she waddles along, but every one of them swerves out of her way. It isn't clear whether Mama's height is a result of some aftermath of the big war or if, as she maintains, she comes from a long line of short people, but either way her elbows are always level with something soft and delicate and she has no compunctions about lashing out at anyone that gets too close.”
― G.D. Penman

“It's the first day of the Kingdom's centennial celebration, the day of the Grease Games. Today a new mutant is created, born into a new life. The pressure to win weighs heavily on Tif's shoulders, but she must stay focused. Her eyes are peeled while she waits for the announcer's arrival.”
― Christian Terry, Short Tales from Earth's Final Chapter: Book 2

“Grant is going to be killed by pirates.
He assumed dehydration, starvation, or drowning would do him in, but no. It's pirates. They stare down at him and his little piece of driftwood from their big, fancy ship, and he wonders if one of them would be kind enough to shoot him. He wonders if a bullet would be enough.”
― Jackary Salem, Winning Collection 2020

“La storia ci suggerisce un lato molto sgradevole della natura umana, amici miei, un lato che probabilmente spiega perché le donne ci abbiano superato. [...] In soldoni, loro sono sane di mente, mentre gli uomini sono pazzi.”
― Stephen King, Owen King, Sleeping Beauties

“«A te che cosa viene in mente quando pensi agli uomini, sapientona?»
«Le armi», ribatté Evie.”
― Stephen King, Owen King, Sleeping Beauties

“I remember abortion being legal in the United States”
― Annalee Newitz, The Future of Another Timeline

“This world is no paradise;
People try to disguise;
People care about lies
And love is dying

This world wasn't meant to unite;
It's all a construction
For every kingdom's strategy;
There is no place for love

…Here you'll only find fake wishes
That you may Rest In Peace

RIP Love”
― Jazalyn, vViIrRuUsS: I Never Forget

“I was different in a world of things of the same, something we'd strived for generation after generation--but... I never understood why we had to be the same. Of course, I kept this to myself. Equality apparently worked.”
― K. Weikel, Sameness

“His mind is like that: always mired in a terrible future.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

“I am no star
And I am no calm;
I cry all the time
Because I don’t like my life

I don’t have money;
I can’t do anything;
I can’t do any other job;
Telling stories is all I want

Only Dreams Can Cure Me”
― Jazalyn, vViIrRuUsS: I Never Forget

“Future brain chips will be bootlegged to include the "heroin" option.”
― Nuclear Circus, 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

“Crager hold the key to our city's survival. Ensign, I know you've never been tested out in the field. We need a sample. He's a monster, son. Something morphed and mutated. He's a nomad running amok in the world with nothing tethering him to civilization. It's asking a lot, but we need you.”
― Kenneth C. Brown, Nomad's Pursuit: Into The Savage Book 1

“Munin was spit out in a fleshy, watery mess. Smack! He flattened on the concrete - a dropped, half-baked tart.”
― Tony Del Degan, Ceres

“Acesta este secretul fericirii È™i al virtuÈ›ii: să-È›i placă ceea ce eÈ™ti obligat să faci. Acesta este È›elul întregii condiÈ›ionări: să-i facă pe oameni să-È™i îndrăgească destinul social implacabil”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Funny how even then, as systems failed, flickered out, institutions revealed as paper thin, that so many couldn't bring themselves to believe in anything. That it helped if you didn't. Better to observe the rituals, use the catchphrases. Share your concern.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander

“These days, we listen to our children, not they to us. Given what we’ve done to the planet, perhaps they have a point. Tasked with passing the baton, like hundreds of generations before us, my team has fumbled the handoff.”
― John Feffer, Splinterlands

“The electorate collaborated in its own disenfranchisement. In the public’s view, all politicians were corrupt, all civil servants inept, and every government little more than a Mafia plus an army. Once the public had been persuaded to cut the state down to size, the real Mafias took over.”
― John Feffer, Splinterlands

“There is hope in the brokenness. There is light, in and after the darkness.”
― Caitlin Lambert, What Lies Above

“Viral Code

…I want my dreams
And I want them now;
Give me my dreams;
Only dreams can cure me;
Everyone deserves dreams
Because no one deserves them”
― Jazalyn, vViIrRuUsS: I Never Forget

“Michael responded, “Remember earlier, you said that speaking up was called ‘speaking upâ€� and not ‘speaking down?â€� You are right in saying that speaking up really does bring you up. You won’t have pent up emotions that weigh you down, so you could rise. Butâ€� once we riseâ€� the Capacia---â€� he paused--- “they want us to fall, so although speaking up itself doesn’t directly cause you to fall, those who want us to fall are able to make us fall, so in the end, you go down. It’s not ‘speaking down.â€� It’s simply being forced down.”
― Lucy Carter, The Reformation

“No doctor can help me
My only doctor is my dreams”
― Jazalyn, vViIrRuUsS: I Never Forget

“لن يثوروا حتى يعوا ولن يعوا إلا بعد أن يثوروا

1984”
― georgeorwell

“Crager hold the key to our city's survival. Ensign, I know you've never been tested out in the field. We need a sample. He's a monster, son. Something morphed and mutated. He's a nomad running amok in the world with nothing tethering him to civilization. It's asking a lot, but we need you."
Grayson heard his mother's voice”
― Kenneth C. Brown, Nomad's Pursuit: Into The Savage Book 1

“Mi padre solía decir que la humanidad era incapaz de ver el límite en los horrores que se provocaba a sí misma. Quizás ha tenido que llegar algo más para demostrarnos que, en realidad, no tenemos un límite. Quizás debamos tener que aprender a olvidar esto, vivir con ello.”
― Daniel Godino, Homini: A Möntkurt Tale