I’m not against thinking; I’m only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed.

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.

Hmph. Yes. Him. He had the nerve to turn down our offer of immortality and tell us to pay better attention to our children. Er, no offense.” “Oh, how could I take offense? Please, go on ignoring me.

A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country

I don't ever want to humiliate a human being, and I don't want the fear of being humiliated to participate in my thoughts.

Making that final commitment is really hard. Because once you decide to move forward, it becomes a whole process which is really hard to stop.

I told you to sell it, not give it away.

You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate

Happiness is a new idea in Europe.

There's just certain accents that you can and can't do. And the Scottish accent was one that came quite naturally to me, which is weird because I have no one in my life who's Scottish.

I don't like coffee but I need caffeine.

I created jobs and saved the taxpayers money on every road I built.