Her parents didn't understand that braille meant big clunky books that marked you as different, while audiobooks live invisibly on your phone and text-to-speech gave you the whole damn internet.
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?
If you threaten Deryn Sharp again, Volger – in any way at all – I’m done with you.
In a novel you always knew the moment when something Happened, when someone Changed. But real life was full of gradual, piecemeal, continuous transformation. It was full of accidents and undefineables...
In the blue time, math kicked ass.-Dess
Keep challenging the gods
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...
My compliments, Alek said slowly and evenly. Your contempt was most convincing.I am your servant.
No one owns the sunset,
Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.
Right, and things were so great back when everyone was ugly. Or did you miss that day in school? Yeah, yeah, I know, Shay recited. Everyone judged everyone else based on their appearance. People who w...
The guy walking past was wearing a shit five sizes too big (innovated by gangbangers to hide guns in their waistbands), shorts down below his knees (innovated by surfers to keep their thighs from gett...
The woman looked like she was starving, her ribs thrusting out from her sides, her legs so thin that Tally wondered how they didn’t snap under her weight. Her elbows and pelvic bones looked sharp as n...
We all steal, Standerson said. The trick is to steal from regular people, not other novelists.
We were all troublemakers, Zane said. So we have exciting stuff stored in our heads. But you have to keep telling those stories, listening to one another, and breaking the rules. You have to stay bubb...
We're too busy being special.
What about a hoverboard?It's waiting on the roof, of course. Dr. Cable snorted. What is it about you miscreants and those things?
When a single nation’s armies are ordered against each other, all is lost.
You and David could both be right. Maybe human beings are programmed … to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad, Tally. Besides, we had a whole...
You’d best ask the lady boffin, sir, Newkirk said. Midshipmen aren’t allowed to have opinions.
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