Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse - bright knives slicing the night into pieces.
So my foolhardiness has produced the correct strategy, Count?Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.
In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly.
Ignorance doesn't lead to salvation, nor does knowledge pave the way to sin. - Cinda Williams Chima
He thinks Goliath can end the war, Alek managed at last. The man wants peace! As do we all, Count Volger said. But there are many ways to end a war. Some are more peaceful than others.
Face it, Tally-wa, you're Special.
A milli-Helen is enough beauty to launch exactly one ship
Humanity is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world.
Tally wondered if you could talk somebody out of their brain damage.
What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year...
That was the trick - to keep punching, no matter what.
Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry.
So, there was this beautiful princess. She was locked in a high tower, one whose smart walls had clever holes in them that could give her anything: food, a clique of fantastic friends, wonderful cloth...
So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?' -- Tally to Peris
Once there was a girl named Riley, the story began. Her heart was a secret garden, its stone walls cracked and weathered. And it was hungry. p160
Okay... That's still blind-making.
Just remember, the things we write, they aren't always really us.
I wonder if she ever wants to trade lives with me, if only for the chance to punch something.
Fifteen! Dess's distant cry reached him. Where the hell are you, Rex? Ten. You're-an-idiot-nine, get-back-here-eight, you-dimwit-seven...