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Uglies (2005)
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History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.
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Two weeks of killer sunburn is worth a lifetime of being gorgeous
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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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The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.
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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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Tally wondered if you could talk somebody out of their brain damage.
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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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The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people, and everyone was incredibly stupid. And ugly.
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But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.
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Once we turn, it's new pretty, middle pretty, late pretty. Shay dropped her arms, and her board stopped drifting. Then dead pretty.
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Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.
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I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.
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Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.
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Which was worse: a friend with brain damage, or one who despised you?
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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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Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority?
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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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The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.
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However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally's choice to stay.
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Now, young lady, I suppose you're here for a work assignment." Work?" Tally said. They both looked down at her puzzled expression, and Shay burst into laughter.
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One of the most common questions writers are asked is "Where do you get your ideas?" But the sad truth is, we don't know. Ideas can come at any time and from any direction: in the shower, waiting for an elevator, or while bouncing across Wikipedia pages.
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Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.
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Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty.
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It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home.
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She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. Tally Youngblood was a weed. And, unlike the orchids, she wasn't even a pretty one.
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I want those perfect eyes and lips, and for everyone to look at me and gasp. And for everyone who sees me to think Who's that? and want to get to know me, and listen to what I say." "I'd rather have something to say.
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May 5, 1963
(age 61)
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