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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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And you know, these things don't last forever.' I know, Mandy. Nothing does.' That's the spirit.
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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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Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.
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Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice.
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I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic grab-the-reader technique.
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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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Perhaps Clankers and Darwinists would always be at war, if only in their hearts.
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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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Hard work's a good distraction.
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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee. -Jonathan
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We don't always get to choose what we love.
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You and David could both be right. Maybe human beings are programmed … to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad, Tally. Besides, we had a whole city of pretties to choose from, and we chose each other."-Zane
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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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In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly.
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Sometimes you can’t choose what you love.
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I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.
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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.
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I'm not sure what I am anymore... Sometimes I think I'm nothing but what other people have done to me―a big collection of brainwashing, surgeries, and cures... That, and all the mistakes I've made. All the people I've disappointed.
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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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Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.
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Dying is one of those things that can’t be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.
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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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Tally wondered if you could talk somebody out of their brain damage.
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