The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to a steam engine, where you can watch the pistons move and feel the heat of its boilers. I think we miss that visceral appeal of the machine.
Probably? So you're asking me to trust my life to steel wool and peanut butter?" "Poisoned peanut butter." "Cal, I don't care if it's nuclear peanut butter.
I kissed him once," she whispered. "Well done. What did he do?" "Um..." Deryn sighed. "He woke up.
A little drama wins more friends than boring.
People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.
Having a brain hurt so much sometimes.
Never bored on a hoverboard.
She wasn't here to gawk. She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission.
However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally's choice to stay.
maybe when you look at your face 50 times its really not that interesting anymore
Frighteningly Beautiful, Dangerously Strong, Breathtakingly Fast. Face it Tally-wa you're special.
Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty.
With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.
Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.
I love my virginity to the apocalypse.
When she awoke, the world was on fire.
Dess shook her head. "Before he walked off, Rex said for you to wait. He said it's totally important you don't touch Angie until he comes back. and he said that if you were a pain about it, I get to hit you with that." She pointed to where the darkling had flung Flabbergasted Supernumerary Mathematician, its tip blackened by ichor and fire. "So, go ahead.
It's just the way things are." she shrugged. "It's no one's fault." "Or everyone's.
Perhaps Clankers and Darwinists would always be at war, if only in their hearts.
I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people.
This is the power of the Goliath, that no one on earth, Clanker or Darwinist, can escape. So we all must learn to share the globe, or perish together!
I'm not sure what I am anymore... Sometimes I think I'm nothing but what other people have done to me―a big collection of brainwashing, surgeries, and cures... That, and all the mistakes I've made. All the people I've disappointed.
That was one problem with dramatic exits: Sometimes they wound up making you look like a bubblehead.
Tally-When you looked around at everyone else how come you didn’t notice they were brain damaged? Az - We didn’t have much to compare our fellow citizens with. Only a few colleagues who seemed different from most people, more engaged, but that was hardly a surprise. History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep. Before the operation there were wars and mass hatred and clear cutting. Whatever these lesions make us, it isn’t a far cry from how humanity was in the rusty era. These days we’re just a bit easier to manage.
You and David could both be right. Maybe human beings are programmed … to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad, Tally. Besides, we had a whole city of pretties to choose from, and we chose each other."-Zane
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