Hunger Games Dystopia Quotes & Sayings

Here's the problem for the secularist: where does the right to an abortion come from? If it comes from the state, he really can't cry foul if the state decides to revoke that right. After all, the same government that grants rights can take them away. However, most abortion-choice advocates thing the right to abortion is fundamental, meaning women have that right even if it's not respected by the state. Yet how can fundamental rights of any kind exist without a transcendent source of authority that grants them? — Scott Klusendorf

Time. There is never enough of it. — Pat Lowery Collins

I've been married more to his ghost than to him. — Hugh Howey

A simple click can cause a great harm — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It had been along time since I breached the surface of the world above. My parents wouldn't allow it. So as far as I knew, the survivors that remained were savages. I'd seen a few things before our colony was built and most of the inhabitants left ran wildly through the bare, desert terrain, filth covering them from head to toe, bones protruding their leathery skin, and foam dripping from their mouths in search of one thing ...
Nourishment. — Lauren Hammond

That's the funny thing about guns; even untrained hands can feel powerful using them. But take that gun away and you're left with nothing but a coward whose only skill is how to blindly pull a trigger. — Jennifer Wilson

To raise a child is to submit to a staggering amount of work, much of which is deeply unpleasant. It would be crazy to have children if they weren't so damned important. — Jonathan V. Last

No one wants to die alone, even though that's how it happens to all of us, even though we pretend there's some other ways. — James Frey

To attain real happiness, humans need to slow down the pursuit of pleasant sensations, not accelerate it. — Yuval Noah Harari

Instead of imagining the frightening and the ugly, I will try to find the beautiful in everyday things. — Rosamund Lupton

The enemy of joy is not suffering, it is idolatry. — Matt Papa

Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age. — Gunter Grass

He stops to wait for her, but she has a sudden burst of energy, passing him. On and on she sprints, unobstructed, kicking up her heels at the water's edge. Dark hair to her chin, rearranged by the wind, obscuring her face. Just when he thinks she will have the energy to run forever, to escape his sight, she pauses. Turning back, breathing hard, her hand on her hip, making sure he is there. — Jhumpa Lahiri