Maybe the trick was not to panic. In life, as in the bewildering business of writing stories and flinging them out into the world, you had to focus on the page in front of you.
Never happens. I’ve spilled more times than a glass of milk on a roller coaster.
Paradigmatica Autorevolezza Extranumerica
The beauty of the world . . . has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. —Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
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 thought of publishing—of the whole world reading Afterworlds—had always made Darcy feel naked and exposed, but loving had left her skinless.
The whole idea that he could take what he wanted without affecting anyone was bull****.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. —Francis Bacon, Essays, Civil and Moral, Of Beauty
This is the power of the Goliath, that no one on earth, Clanker or Darwinist, can escape. So we all must learn to share the globe, or perish together!
We're all made stories.
When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.
Would the hydrogen catch fire? Alek grasped the edge of the window, hardly feeling the broken glass against his palms. Deryn he sobbed. Anything but this.
You can tell a million different stories about love. Especially when it’s love with someone who’s different.You mean a monster? Coleman said.Well, that’s what you think at first. But it’s like, um, Be...
You don't believe all that crap, do you - that there's one way to look, and everyone is programmed to agree on it?
Your book is smart and beautiful. I want to have its sequels.
Everyone in the city is manipulated. The purpose of everything we’re taught is to make us afraid of change.
It had never occurred to him before now that people could see reality in completely different ways.
You just took on five million years of evolution again
¿Debía contarle a aquel nuevo imperfecto que, esa misma tarde,iban a abrirle el cuerpo, a limarle los huesos para darles la forma adecuada, a estiraro rellenar algunos, a quitarle el cartílago nasal y...
Pero siempre se corre un riesgo cuando uno... besa a alguien nuevo
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