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Boys had something else ... a sort of swagger about them.

A milli-Helen is enough beauty to launch exactly one ship

Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.

I sent Shay, Peris, and everyone else the same message ...

Dare to ask, "Where is my novel too simple?"

I took a rant-sized breath.

High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track.

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!

Maybe he really could see past her ugly face. Maybe what was inside her did matter to him more than anything else. Tally

She imagines herself as the long-dead Descartes, staring into his fireplace and building a world in his own mind.

It helps to be with people who remember you, and who still think about you.

Fun fact: there are also 3,000 varieties of pears. That's right. Even PEARS are more complicated than you thought!

Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.

Assisted him? Dylan made the repairs. I only fell and hit my head, from what I can recall. Yes, I make excellent deadweight.

Barking hard work, being a boy.

I'm here to learn. And what you have taught me is to avoid love as long as possible.

You don't believe all that crap, do you - that there's one way to look, and everyone is programmed to agree on it?

I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.

As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely.
(Spoken by Volger, on Deryn)

Fine. Seer knows best, even if he is nuts. Maybe I can stand to wait a few more ... whoa. What the hell happened to my car?
-Melissa

The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit.

You dont see me, now you do, but only if i want you to

They walked with a pedatory grace ... one of them ripped off their hood and said, "my name is Tally Youngblood and is a special circumstance" ...

Sometimes you can't choose what you love.

Sooner or later usually means too late

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.
-Jonathan

Sleep is a little slice of death.

Your book is smart and beautiful. I want to have its sequels.

your not alone, Tally. Don't pretend you are

Wisdom tells me I'm nothing. But love tells me I'm everything.

Humanity is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world.

I kissed him once," she whispered.
"Well done. What did he do?"
"Um ... " Deryn sighed. "He woke up.

In the blue time, math kicked ass.
-Dess

Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse - bright knives slicing the night into pieces.

Let others wage war. You, lucky Austria, shall marry.

History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.

Irony is always the best weapon against facism.

There was a long pause. "Um, I'm afraid I don't know the word in English."
"The word for what?"
"I just said I don't *know* it!

We're too busy being special.

Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.

If a meteor falls in the forest and no one realizes it, does it end the war?

humanity is a cancer on the body of the world

Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.

To everyone who loves a long-secret romance, revealed at last.

You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.

I feel like sometimes my best friend is not my best friend but my mortal enemy

That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.

Dying is one of those things that can't be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.

At fist he didn't say anything more, and we had a little staring contest there in the darkness. but I liked staring at him, and I won.

That was the whole point of being special: You existed to make sure everyone else behaved, but that didn't mean YOU had to.

More lies, but maybe lies were better than the truth.

It must be horrible to see an ugly face when your surrounded by such beautiful people all the time . In my opinion , it does happens sometimes .

Be careful with the world , or the next time we meet, it might get ugly.

So, there was this beautiful princess.
She was locked in a high tower( ... )She was stuck up there( ... )So the only thing was to jump.

You don't think happy endings are stupid anymore?"
"Your question is irrelevant," Imogen said. "This isn't the end.

Weird, even for one of us. Or maybe she's worse."
"Worse how?"
"Normal.

Tally wondered if you could talk somebody out of their brain damage.

Novelists are evil psychopomps, basically. We treat a few characters as real, but the rest of them are cannon fodder.

Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty.

A country with two kings will always falter.

You're a bum-rag covered in clart!

The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.

That's where the money is in publishing - people who don't read.

Making ourselves feel ugly is not fun."
"We are ugly.

Because that's what people need after traumas, apparently - lots of long conversations about the effects of trauma.

Don't. Shoot. The air is full of hydrogen!

It didn't matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself.

When the term 'machine gun' enters common parlance, the word 'machine' becomes much more sinister.

Rex lost his specs.

Hi guys the book Im reading right this moment is called Uglies

Once there was a girl named Riley, the story began. Her heart was a secret garden, its stone walls cracked and weathered. And it was hungry. p160

Wisdom tells me i'm nothing, love tells me I'm everything.

The whole idea that he could take what he wanted without affecting anyone was bull****.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

You're splitting?"
"No sh*it, Sherlock.

But it's always taking a risk, when you ... kiss someone new.

What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

Face it, Tally-wa, you're special

Being fathomed was even better than being flattered, it turned out.

Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry.

Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.

The stitches in my forehead itched, loud noises made me jump, and I'd been wearing the same socks for three days in a row. Everyone

Let me get this stright, Aya-Chan. You want me, a person who can't lie, to lie about the fact that I can't lie?
-Frizz mizuno

Fifteen!" Dess's distant cry reached him. "Where the hell are you, Rex? Ten. You're-an-idiot-nine, get-back-here-eight, you-dimwit-seven ...

The man was allergic to sleep.

Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image.

But I feel more real when I'm around her. Like I'm not fading.

Maybe that is the price of loving someone: you lose your grasp of where they ended and you began.

There was something magic in their large perfect eyes, something that made you pay attention

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.

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 ...

Barking spiders!

I love my virginity to the apocalypse.

Lace: "Are you saying that your fat-ass cat has turned me into a vampire?"

Cal: "Um, maybe?

My protag likes to play with matches. Then she finds out she doesn't need the matches.'
"I would totally totally TBR that," Sagan said.

Have a little faith in me, Volger." "I have great faith, tempered with vast annoyance.

Being an author sucks, doesn't it? It's like telling a joke and nobody laughs for two years.

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.

she wasn't so much a writer as a thief.

The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.