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- Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.
- Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations…
- Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain—Maddy glanced…
- Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to…
- Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.
- I’m not against thinking; I’m only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed.
- 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…
- And the worst thing was, there were no mirrors out there in the wild, so the princess was left wondering whether she in fact was…
- Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse - bright knives slicing the night into pieces.
- That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both.
- 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 wondered if you could talk somebody out of their brain damage.
- He squeezed her hand. "Then I'll come get you, wherever you are when it happens. We'll be okay." "But what about everybody else?" He stared…
- Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.
- Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into…
- Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood…
- Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city." "There are no limits in war," Volger said, still staring out the window.
- She turned to Frizz. "So you understand the problem? You can't let Tally know about Radical Honesty. There's no telling what she'll do if she…
- God, you mean I lost my virginity to the apocalypse?" Morgan sighed again. "The whole thing was really embarrassing; my parents sent me to Brooklyn…
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