The Rusties had more than one dream ..... After the first crude city killers were invented... they were redesigned to send people into space. Death and hope in one machine,
He squeezed her hand. Then I'll come get you, wherever you are when it happens. We'll be okay.But what about everybody else?He stared out across the river, nodding slowly. My guess is, everybody else...
Emperors are vain and useless things.
I kissed him once, she whispered.
It's just programmingNo. It's because I love him
From now on, no one rewires my mind but me.
Haven't you ever known someone rejected by a lover, who, consumed by rage and jealousy, never lets go? They look on from a distance, unseen but boiling inside. The emotion never seems to tire, this ha...
The Shrink always warned me that carriers stay wracked with lifelong guilt. It's not an uplifting thing having turned lovers into monsters. We feel bad that we haven't turned into monsters ourselves--...
You are so... 11:59
Did you really think I was too fragile to know what Deryn was?Fragile? Volger looked about. I hadn't thought so, but now I find you brooding in a bathroom. This doesn't speak well of your sturdiness.
Having a brain hurt so much sometimes.
Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had belie...
You fiddle lucker!' she cried.
I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people.
Weird, even for one of us. Or maybe she's worse.
The universe is math on fire.
NO, WE DO NOT HAVE PENS!Bring your own. You'll need them. You see, like every other department in the city, Records runs on Almighty Forms. There are forms that tell the Night Mayor's office what we h...
Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.
He chuckled, shaking his head. Man, you hunters. I break a pencil and there's hell to pay.I can see how that's deeply unfair, Chip. Especially if that pencil should try to kill you with it teeth and c...
And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag.