Here's another thing to remember: hope keeps you alive. Even when you're dead, it's the only thing that keeps you alive.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

...into hate, into refusal, against hope and without fear

You have to go forward: It's the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal law.

My heart is fluid and soaring. There's no longer any space between heartbeats.

As soon as I look up, his eyes click onto my face. The breath whooshes out of my body and everything freezes for a second, as though I’m looking at him through my camera lens, zoomed in all the way, the world pausing for that tiny span of time between the opening and closing of the shutter.

Love: It will kill you and save you, both