You have a bad habit of listing anything that can go wrong, Volger.I have always considered that a good habit
Life sucked all right. It sucked hard, because it was random and terrifying and too easily lost. Life was full of death cults and psychopaths, bad timing and bad people. Life was broken...Because you...
Maybe he really could see past her ugly face. Maybe what was inside her did matter to him more than anything else. Tally
Maybe human beings programmed...to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad...
Mindy had explained that a lot of things had ghosts, not just people. Animals, machines, even things as vast as a paved-over forest or as humble as the smell of good cooking could leave traces of them...
My compliments, Alek said slowly and evenly. Your contempt was most convincing.I am your servant.
My whole life, I always thought that I was the only impostor. That everyone else was certain they were real in some way that I could never understand. But what if they're all just faking too? Maybe no...
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 and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.
You don't believe all that crap, do you - that there's one way to look, and everyone is programmed to agree on it?
Wisdom tells me i'm nothing, love tells me I'm everything.
Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.
Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.
The exposure effect is also good news for those of us who weren't born gorgeous. It means that the people who know us best—our parents and children, our best friends and true loves—ultimately 'forget'...
The moment her feet touched the floor, a chill ran up her spine. She was standing on her sweatshirt, which lay next to her bed in a crumpled pile. It was soaking wet.
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
When Tally glanced out at the glowing horizon, her eyes opened wide. She’d never seen dawn from outside the city before. Like most uglies, she was rarely up early enough, and in any case the horizon w...
At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.
Battered by the mind noise, huddled in the back with eyes closed and fists clenched, the old Melissa had understood pep rallies about as well as a bird sucked through a jet engine comprehended aircraf...
Didn't any of these brainless wonders ever notice that TV shows were called programs? the same word that meant a bunch of numbers stuck into a computer to make it dance for its masters?
Even mocking people helped their face stats. In the reputation economy, the only real way to hurt anyone was to ignore them completely. And it was pretty hard to ignore someone who made your blood boi...
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