She wasn't here to gawk. She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission.

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.

Nothing in life or love slipped easily into the tidy little box of his expectations.

My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage earners for the leisure class.

Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.

The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.

Older people do a better job of managing their impulses, and so they're better able to put off putting off.

The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us, all of you, are endowed with the powers of fantasy.

I want to be your personal penguin. Please?

Fools give you reasons and wise men never try.