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Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain.
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The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.
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I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood
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Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma.
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Come on, it's almost midnight. Let's go watch them cut the cake.
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Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.
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Tally wondered if you could talk somebody out of their brain damage.
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You'd best ask the lady boffin, sir, Newkirk said. Midshipmen aren't allowed to have opinions.
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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 it probably wasn't very often that a stranger dropped in from the sky.
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She turned to Frizz. "So you understand the problem? You can't let Tally know about Radical Honesty. There's no telling what she'll do if she finds out you could ruin her plans." Frizz's eyebrows rose. "So let me get this straight, Aya-chan. You want me, a person who can't lie, to lie about the fact that I can't lie?" "We need another plan," Hiro said.
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That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both.
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We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in...
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But you know what? It's not my behavior I'm worried about anymore. It's yours.
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That was the whole point of being special: You existed to make sure everyone else behaved, but that didn't mean YOU had to.
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You're infamous, Tally. Everyone's terrified of you. The new system may have made the other cities nervous, but they seem to think my little gang of psychotic sixteen-year-olds is worse" - Cable to Tally
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Ah. So he's forgotten the most important rule of warfare. Which is... That nothing ever goes to plan.
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Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.
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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 hatred mixed with intense obsession, even with a kind of twisted love.
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The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.
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She wasn't here to gawk. She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission.
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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.
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It's just the way things are." she shrugged. "It's no one's fault." "Or everyone's.
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Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.
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And the worst thing was, there were no mirrors out there in the wild, so the princess was left wondering whether she in fact was still beautiful... or if the fall had changed the story completely.
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Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse - bright knives slicing the night into pieces.
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Born:
May 5, 1963
(age 60)
Bio:
Scott David Westerfeld is an American writer of young adult fiction, best known as the author of the Uglies and the Leviathan series.
Known for:
Uglies (2005)
Leviathan (2009)
Pretties (2005)
Extras (2007)
Specials (2006)
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