We’re not freaks, Tally. We’re normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we’re not hyped-up Barbie dolls.

Una franja en la que se mezclaban el naranja y el amarillo prendía fuego al cielo,espléndida e inesperada, tan espectacular como los fuegos artificiales, aunquecambiaba a un ritmo majestuoso y apenas perceptible. Tally estaba descubriendo...

Then dead pretty.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

The best way to know a city is to eat it.

She couldn’t disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no doubt few and far between. (…), that made stories a valuable commodity, and...

Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. “I’m Tally Youngblood,” she said. “make me pretty.

Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain—Maddy glanced at Tally—and selfish. It only takes a twist to lock...

That’s the worst thing they do to you, to any of you. Whatever those brain lesions are all about, the worst damage is done before they even pick up the knife: You’re all brainwashed into...

Most men’s awareness doesn’t extend past their dinner plates.

Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.

But I feel more real when I’m around her. Like I’m not fading.

Her only way home was to betray her friend.

You don’t know what it’s like, when your best friend disappears.

Some mornings when I wake up, it takes a long time to remember who I am. Like, it takes a while for everything that’s happened in last month to download into my brain. It’s nice,...

You don’t look very happy.”Tally tried to smile. David had shared his biggest secret with her; she should tell him hers. But she wasn’t brave enough to say the words. “It’s been a long night....

You’re insane!” she shouted.”Pretty cool, huh?””No!”Tally yelled. “Why didn’t you tell me it was broken?”Shay shrugged. “More fun that way?””More fun?” Her heart beating fast,her vision strangely clear. She was full of anger and relief...

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,...

I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.

Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.

I’m not the one going for a biology degree. I’m just a philosophy major who eats people.

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.

I’d watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal – against normal, not beside it. Locks didn’t cure; they strangled.

I’m a girl.”When Deryn opened her eyes, the lady boffin was staring at her with no change of expression. “Indeed,” she said.Deryn’s mouth feel open. “You mean you…Did you barking know?””I had no idea at...

She needed Andrew Simpson Smith, it was that simple. And he had spent his life training to help people like her. Gods. “Okay, Andrew. But let’s leave today. I’m in a hurry.””Of course. Today.” He...

Looking for a thousand years is worth it, if in the end you find what you need.

Assisted him? Dylan made the repairs. I only fell and hit my head, from what I can recall. Yes, I make excellent deadweight.

That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.

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–survivor’s guilt, that’s called....

Do you love him?”Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. “He makes me feel like that. Like flying.

It’s amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.

High school wasn’t a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track.