That girl in the painting looks so fierce, so strong. I want her to be the truth of me.
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 eye...
Still, she wouldn’t have traded anything for this moment, standing there and looking down at the plains spread out below. Tally had spent the last four years staring at the skyline of New Pretty Town,...
Sometimes Tally felt she could almost accept brain damage if it meant a life without reconstituted noodles.
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 orchid...
Real life doesn’t have many happy endings. Why shouldn’t books make up the difference?
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 everybo...
Novelists are evil psychopomps, basically. We treat a few characters as real, but the rest of them are cannon fodder.
No one owns the sunset,
Ninety-nine percent of humanity had had something done to their brains, and only a few people in the world knew exactly what. •
Nature was tough, it could be dangerous, but unlike Dr. Cable or shay, or peris-unlike people in general-it made sense. The problems it threw at you could be solved rationally.
Maybe he really could see past her ugly face. Maybe what was inside her did matter to him more than anything else. Tally
It’s just . . . it feels like someone’s going to ask me for ID. Like, writer ID. The
Is it not good to make society full of beautiful people? —Yang Yuan, quoted in the New York Times
If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.
I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood
Frighteningly Beautiful, Dangerously Strong, Breathtakingly Fast.Face it Tally-wa you're special...
Deryn was quite astounding, really, and entirely worth throwing away an empire for.
But I’ll do anything in my power to stop them from taking you away. She took a shuddering breath, then let her eyes fall closed. Promise? Anything. As you said in Tokyo, we’re meant to be together.
Being an author sucks, doesn't it? It's like telling a joke and nobody laughs for two years.