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Nature was tough, it could be dangerous, but unlike Dr. Cable or shay, or peris-unlike people in general-it made sense. The problems it threw at you could be solved rationally.

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Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry.

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The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.

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At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.

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He turned to face her again, his late-pretty composure crumbling. "But you're..." "Pretty? Think again." She smiled. "I'm Tally Youngbood. My mind is very ugly. And I'm taking your car.

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I kissed him once," she whispered. "Well done. What did he do?" "Um..." Deryn sighed. "He woke up.

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She looked at David closely, and the feeling was still there. She could see that his forehead was too high, that a small scar cut a white stroke through his eyebrow. And his smile was pretty crooked, really. But it was as if something had changed inside Tally's head, something that had turned his face pretty to her.

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And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?

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To everyone who loves a long-secret romance, revealed at last.

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Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.

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

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

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He and I have this... personality conflict. Namely, I think he should get a new one.

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But it's always taking a risk, when you... kiss someone new.

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Why are you still wearing...?" Aya began. "Oh, that's not smart plastic? You're really an ugly?" David rolled his eyes and Shay said quietly, "David's never had any surge at all. But I wouldn't use the word ugly...Tally might eat you.

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Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Everyone ugly was in bed by now.

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With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.

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As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a way that felt like choosing but was actually the dance of little gears—neurons and hormones bubbling up into decisions like clockwork. You don't use your body; it uses you.

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The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.

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The world rests upon a turtle, which itself stands on the back of an elephant! Alek tried not to laugh. Then what does the elephant stand on, madam? Don't try to be clever, young man. She narrowed her eyes. It's elephants all the way down!

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So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?' — Tally to Peris

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A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak.

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And over all those sleepy weeks, the dream always ended the same way, with the dragon coming for the princess saying the same words every time.... "Face it, Tally-wa, you're Special.

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God, you mean I lost my virginity to the apocalypse?" Morgan sighed again. "The whole thing was really embarrassing; my parents sent me to Brooklyn when they found out." She shrugged. "I thought I'd be safe in a gay bar, okay? What were you doing in there anyway?" Lace looked at me sidelong. "You were where?" I took a sip of beer, swallowed it. "I, uh, hadn't been in the city...very long. I didn't know.

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Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority?

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Even mocking people helped their face stats. In the reputation economy, the only real way to hurt anyone was to ignore them completely. And it was pretty hard to ignore someone who made your blood boil.

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As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely. (Spoken by Volger, on Deryn)

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Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look," she said. "No," David said. "It changes the way you think.

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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 in that part of their personalities. He always thought that some people could think their way out of it.

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Gravity was something you could beat; all it took was hydrogen, hot air, or even a bit of rope. But being a girl was a miserable, never-ending struggle.

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