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She’d felt from David was crushed by it. Every day of her life she’d insulted other uglies and had been insulted in return. Fattie, Pig-Eyes, Boney, Zits, Freak—all the names uglies called one another...
Your public-spiritedness is appreciated, I assure you.
Your first novel is like your first relationship. You won’t really understand the decisions you make until years later. She laughed. And you’ll probably screw up the ending.
You should make sure that the quotable lines of dialogue in your book never exceed a hundred and forty characters! seemed
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.
What a waste, using her talents this way. Like a brain surgeon clubbing seals for a living.
We're all made stories.
Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice.
Their bodies fit perfectly like this, two continents pulled eons ago but now rejoined.
The world always had more details than you could remember, more than you could even see, and a thousand times more than you could ever write down. You were always deleting and forgetting far more than...
The opening chapter was the book's unique selling point, the singular idea that had carried Darcy through last November, and Coleman had just come up with it off the top of his head.
The night went on like this, a mix of serious talk, utter bullshit, self-promotion, and slumber-party giddiness.
The features that we take from our parents are the things that make us different. A big nose, thin lips, high forehead—all the things that the operation takes away.
The Germans were still hunting Alek, trying to finish the job they’d started on his parents. Someone had to be on his side. And, as Deryn had gradually admitted to herself these last few days, she did...
That girl in the painting looks so fierce, so strong. I want her to be the truth of me.
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 differen...
Sometimes Tally felt she could almost accept brain damage if it meant a life without reconstituted noodles.
Some were grotesquely fat, or weirdly overmuscled, or uncomfortably thin, and almost all of them had wrong, ugly proportions. But instead of being ashamed of their deformities, the people were laughin...
She laughed and broke into a run, racing out to grab handfuls of raindrops from the air, all alone in a world of diamonds.