Do you love him?" Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. "He makes me feel like that. Like flying.

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

What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

My name is tally youngblood and my mind is very ugly

Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.

I'm Tally Youngblood. Make me pretty." -Tally Youngblood

Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.

I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood

However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally's choice to stay.

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.

A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.

Three people I take their words with a grain of salt: a person in love, a drunk and an insurance agent. They never really mean exactly what they say.

Tolerance is not a synonym of Weakness

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

Robert Whitmore died of apoplexy when a stranger from Georgia mistook him for a former Macon waiter.

Restless thoughts are a kind of mental 'static' which must be silenced if we are to hear the whispers of our inner self.

I didn't go out on one date in high school. I played guitar and sang and wrote my own music and poetry and stuff when I was a teenager.

I had a fall out with Satan. Repeating satanic verses.

We recycle everything in my house. I'm not into any particular organizations, but I'm doing my part and that makes me feel okay.

As far as what I do love, I love birds; I love lavender.

Dead fields under a November sky, scattered rose petals brown and turning up at the edges, empty pools scummed with algae, rot, decomposition, dust.