Being in the city all the time made everything fake, in a way. Like the buildings and bridges held up by hoverstruts, or jumping off a rooftop with a bungee jacket on, nothing was quite real there.
You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.
You don't look very happy.
You can't blame a match for a house made of straw
Yeah, I can read, he said. Didn't mean to shock you. Maybe you thought I ran around in a little wheel all day?
So, there was this beautiful princess. She was locked in a high tower, one whose smart walls had cleaver holes in them that could give her anything: food, a clique of fantastic friends, wonderful clot...
Nice concept. But is it a trilogy or a tweet? I can't tell any more.
More lies, but maybe lies were better than the truth.
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 city of pretties to choose from, and...
It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.
He and I have this... personality conflict. Namely, I think he should get a new one.
Have a little faith in me, Volger.I have great faith, tempered with vast annoyance.
Happy endings are popular. Do you not watch movies?Yeah, but that's movies, Darcy groaned. Books are above all that!
Gods are so last year, Hiro said, and Aya smiled.
First love is amazing and wonderful, but a kind of panic underlies it, a sense of not knowing what you're doing.
But books don't happen by accident.
This is life. Right here in this room, with you, is life.
That’s where the money is in publishing—people who don’t read.
You know,' I called, 'you're the one that's going to have to explain to Max how you got your blender back.'I'll tell him I astral-projected. Butt-head.
Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.