I like the idea of something greater than us. We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions. We are no closer to perfection than we were one hundred years ago, or five hundred.

The trick was looking past the illusion, because the exit was never as far away as it seemed.

Dystopian, by definition, promises a darker story.

When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of 'The Other Side of Midnight' by Sidney Sheldon. It was my first adult book.

Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.

None of the wives mention the security guards by the door, who will probably tackle us to the ground if we try to leave without our husbands.

There is a silence so great that I can hear the ice crystals cracking and falling from eyelashes of girls who will never blink again.