You know,' I called, 'you're the one that's going to have to explain to Max how you got your blender back.'I'll tell him I astral-projected. Butt-head.
What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year...
We're all made stories.
The scent of a faraway place lay on my skin.
Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry.
So, there was this beautiful princess. She was locked in a high tower, one whose smart walls had cleaver holes in them that could give her anything: food, a clique of fantastic friends, wonderful clot...
She squeezes my hand, and I feel that certainty I always had as a littlie. That I'm more than expendable. More than a body double.
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
Necessity is the mother of invention
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...
I’m sick of the rules and boundaries. The last thing I want is to become some empty-headed new pretty, having one big party all day.
It didn't matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself.
I wonder if she ever wants to trade lives with me, if only for the chance to punch something.
How come you forget English when you swear?
Hiding from the truth was worse than being lied to.
Have a little faith in me, Volger.I have great faith, tempered with vast annoyance.
Fuzzy Tally is no more.
Freedom has a way of destroying things.
Alek: Am I that obvious?Deryn: No. Im just dead clever.
You just took on five million years of evolution again