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I go where the lizards tell me.
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Tally-When you looked around at everyone else how come you didn’t notice they were brain damaged? Az - We didn’t have much to compare our fellow citizens with. Only a few colleagues who seemed different from most people, more engaged, but that was hardly a surprise. History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep. Before the operation there were wars and mass hatred and clear cutting. Whatever these lesions make us, it isn’t a far cry from how humanity was in the rusty era. These days we’re just a bit easier to manage.
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Maybe when you look at your face 50 times its really not that interesting anymore
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the parties are no fun until everyone gets drunk
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He makes me feel like that. Like flying.
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Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.
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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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The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.
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Dare to ask, "Where is my novel too simple?"
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He thinks Goliath can end the war," Alek managed at last. "The man wants peace!" "As do we all," Count Volger said. "But there are many ways to end a war. Some are more peaceful than others.
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You look beautiful - David
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Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.
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They walked with a pedatory grace.... one of them ripped off their hood and said, "my name is Tally Youngblood and is a special circumstance".
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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.
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If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.
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Frighteningly Beautiful, Dangerously Strong, Breathtakingly Fast. Face it Tally-wa you're special.
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Her only way home was to betray her friend.
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Perhaps it's worth saying again: One reader's discomfort should never stand in the way of another reader's survival.
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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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That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both.
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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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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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Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.
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A little drama wins more friends than boring.
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