Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.

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 key to your greatness is under your control.

...knowing often felt preferable to not knowing. It provided the illusion of control.

I just want that, the way I feel when you kiss me. Just having it makes all the bad things better.

We can't escape history, anymore than we can recapture it." Master Kai

Let's face it: we live at a time when government is less and less powerful, less and less effective, and the agent of social change, at least for the immediate future, is the corporation.

Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart.

I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.

It's humiliating to have to explain your value.

Neither privacy nor publicity is dead, but technology will continue to make a mess of both.

If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all he said.