My compliments, Alek said slowly and evenly. Your contempt was most convincing.I am your servant.
Miss Rogers waved a hand. But Mr. Hearst just wants a dramatic story. If the rebels destroy us, he'll get no story at all! Aye, but has anyone explained that to the barking rebels? These are rebels,...
Maybe the natural world wasn't so jaw-droppingly horrible, appaling, nasty, vile. Sometimes nature could be quite sweet, really, as delicate as a confused and horny butterfly.
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...
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...
If a meteor falls in the forest and no one realizes it, does it end the war?
I would have killed him to save the Leviathan. To save you. He put his hands on her shoulders. It was the only thing in my mind, when it came time to choose – that I couldn’t lose you. That’s when I k...
I wonder why they never come back, Shay said. Just to visit. Tally swallowed. Because we’re so ugly, Skinny, that’s why.
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.
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. Otherwise, you might as well be living on a reservatio...
Dying is one of those things that can’t be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.
Don’t worry, he kept saying. The overworld can’t hurt you if you stay calm. I wasn’t calm at all. But my panic was like a poisonous snake at a zoo, staring at me from the other side of thick glass. On...
Didn't this beat everything? A pretty and an ugly taking a stroll together. The warden came closer, confusion all over his middle-pretty face. Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end...
Dess shook her head. Before he walked off, Rex said for you to wait. He said it's totally important you don't touch Angie until he comes back. and he said that if you were a pain about it, I get to hi...
Deryn felt brilliant, rising through the air at the center off everyone's attention, like an acrobat aloft on a swing. She wanted to make a speech:Hey, all you sods, I can fly and you can't! A natural...
Darcy didn’t want this interruption to last only a year. She wanted to see how long she could stretch this feeling out. To be dizzy with words again, like in that glorious week at the end of last Nove...
Being fathomed was even better than being flattered, it turned out.
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...
At fist he didn't say anything more, and we had a little staring contest there in the darkness. but I liked staring at him, and I won.
Alek was right behind her now, his body pressing close as he adjusted her sword arm. She hadn't realized this fencing business would be so touchy. He grasped her waist, sending a crackle across her sk...