I want those perfect eyes and lips, and for everyone to look at me and gasp. And for everyone who sees me to think Who's that? and want to get to know me, and listen to what I say.I'd rather have some...
¿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...
You’d best ask the lady boffin, sir, Newkirk said. Midshipmen aren’t allowed to have opinions.
You weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.
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 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...
Without lesions making everyone agreeable, society was left roiling in a constant battle of words, images, and ideas. All around her Tally felt the city seething, all those unfettered minds bouncing t...
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 all steal, Standerson said. The trick is to steal from regular people, not other novelists.
To everyone who loves a long-secret romance, revealed at last.
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...
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 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'...
It's important to understand that the human brain is filled with meaningless chatter. Improperly trained or augmented, it jumps between reliving past humiliations and worrying over future hypothetical...
I'm not sure what I am anymore... Sometimes I think I'm nothing but what other people have done to mea big collection of brainwashing, surgeries, and cures... That, and all the mistakes I've made. All...
I spilled more times than a glass of milk on a roller coaster.
Anything more than friendship with her would destroy his chances of taking the throne. But every time one of them had fallen – in the snows of the Alps, in Istanbul, on the stormy topside, in that du...
And hidden within the agony the strange clarity came again, as if the world had ordered itself into something that made perfect sense.