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.
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...
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...
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.
Maybe that was why she was helping Madeleine. She was a manipulative bitch, but Dess couldn't imagine living in any other reality than the one those manipulations had created. In a way, Dess owed the...
Makes perfect sense. In a problematic way. But life is problematic, so novels must be too.
La naturaleza, al menos, no necesitaba de operaciones para ser bella.Simplemente lo era.
It’s wrong to live in nature, unless you want to live like an animal.
It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home.
It must be horrible to see an ugly face when your surrounded by such beautiful people all the time . In my opinion , it does happens sometimes .
If you threaten Deryn Sharp again, Volger – in any way at all – I’m done with you.
I can pick up the city feeds on my antenna. It said they were going to change you all. Turn you into something less dangerous. Are you still...?She gazed at him. What do you think, David?He peered int...
Hoverboarding looks so fun, like being a bird. But actually doing it is hard work.Shay shrugged. Being a bird's probably hard work too. Flapping your wings all day, you know?
He shook with another sob, sinking to one knee and realizing that the survival of that one ship – one girl, really – had been for a moment more important than the war itself, or a city’s millions. The...
Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain.
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...
Dr. Barlow, it is, of course, customary to check with the caption before, uh, giving away his ship. -Deryn Sharp
Doing what you're supposed to do is always boring. I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.
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?
Deryn had been there every step of the way. We are connected, aren’t we? Aye, she said, still chewing. And for us to meet at all, I had to pretend to be a boy. Fancy that. Barking destiny, Bovril said...