Dude, I just watched you climb up a f*cking building!-Lace
A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak.
That was the whole point of being special: You existed to make sure everyone else behaved, but that didn't mean YOU had to.
As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely. (Spoken by Volger, on Deryn)
Didn't this beat everything? A pretty and an ugly taking a stroll together. The warden came closer, confusion all over his middle-pretty face. Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "Make me pretty.
Tally sighed, tipping her feet again to follow. "Maybe that's because they have better stuff to do than kid tricks. Maybe partying in town is better than hanging out in a bunch of old ruins." Shay's eyes flashed. "Or maybe when they do the operation-when they grind and stretch your bones to the right shape, peel off your face and rub all your skin away, and stick in plastic cheekbones so you look like everyone else-maybe after going through all that you just aren't very interesting anymore.
We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls.
Even mocking people helped their face stats. In the reputation economy, the only real way to hurt anyone was to ignore them completely. And it was pretty hard to ignore someone who made your blood boil.
your not alone, Tally. Don't pretend you are
so pRetty i hAd to Eat hiM
Irony is always the best weapon against fascism.
And it was pretty clear that no prince was showing up, or at least that he was really late.
I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time - phones, music players, etc. - are blobjects.
All that glitters is not hovery.
She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. Tally Youngblood was a weed. And, unlike the orchids, she wasn't even a pretty one.
Two weeks of killer sunburn is worth a lifetime of being gorgeous
It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home.
Once we turn, it’s new pretty, middle pretty, late pretty.” Shay dropped her arms, and her board stopped drifting. “Then dead pretty.
No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.
At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.
It's not the way Zane looks, David," she said, her voice trembling with anger. "It's because he makes me bubbly, and because we took a lot of risks together. It could just as easily be me lying there, and he would stay with me if it was." "It's just programming!" "No. It's because I love him.
The world rests upon a turtle, which itself stands on the back of an elephant!” Alek tried not to laugh. “Then what does the elephant stand on, madam?” “Don’t try to be clever, young man.” She narrowed her eyes. “It’s elephants all the way down!
He and I have this... personality conflict. Namely, I think he should get a new one.
That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.
you just took on five million years of evolution again
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