Where did you get that idea for a nose? - Frizz Mizuno

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.

Confidence can be learned - but not from a book. Confidence comes from from living.

No mountain of doom, Just foothills of Ferninand.Towers of fire and glory as far as one can see.

I feel like all I've done lately is play really sexually-charged drug addicts. I don't know what's wrong with me. I've gotta go to Disneyland more and get more excitement.

I'd rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray.

If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.

To be a mother is a magical experience. The whole body is transformed by this.

A constitutional state is like daily bread, like water to drink and air to breath, and the best thing about democracy is that it is the only system capable of securing the constitutional state.

Every successful author I know faced crushing rejection early on, and they got back up and kept going.

I was not "shoe." That's a misuse of the term "shoe," which is derived from "white shoe."

When something isn't constantly drummed-up by the media, [people] just don't know about it.