It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.

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.

The purification of the mind is very necessary. (72)

Their lot in life, their station, became a part of their personalities and helped to for my worldview.

Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt.

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

We never got on a big, big tour, but we did a lot of spot dates.

Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.

It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.

My father has been the silent force behind my success. My mother has been a constant source of guidance in my career.

When I was in high school I thought I was going to university into psychology.