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But doesn't real love work the other way round?" Kiralee asked. "You start by thinking someone's fabulous, and by the end of the piece you realize he's a monster!"
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You have to prove to New York that you really want to live here.
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You can tell a million different stories about love. Especially when it's love with someone who's different." You mean a monster?" Coleman said. "Well, that's what you think at first. But it's like, um, Beauty and the Beast. When you find out that the monster is actually . . . nice." ...... "But doesn't real love work the other way round?" Kiralee asked. "You start by thinking someone's fabulous, and by the end of the piece you realize he's..
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But doesn't real love work the other way round?"...... "You start by thinking someone's fabulous, and by the end of the piece you realize he's a monster!"
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Still, she wouldn't have traded anything for this moment, standing there and looking down at the plains spread out below. Tally had spent the last four years staring at the skyline of New Pretty Town, thinking it was the most beautiful sight in the world, but she didn't think so anymore. *
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life is problematic, so novels must be too.
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Writing fairies can get grumpy in a new house," Johari said. "Like cats. Mine pissed on the pillows every night for a week after I moved up to New York."
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Maybe he really could see past her ugly face. Maybe what was inside her did matter to him more than anything else. Tally
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But having a brain hurt so much sometimes.
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Panopticon,
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We're all made stories.
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Yeah, I can read", he said. "Didn't mean to shock you. Maybe you thought I ran around in a little wheel all day?"
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Battered by the mind noise, huddled in the back with eyes closed and fists clenched, the old Melissa had understood pep rallies about as well as a bird sucked through a jet engine comprehended aircraft design.
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The exposure effect is also good news for those of us who weren't born gorgeous. It means that the people who know us best--our parents and children, our best friends and true loves--ultimately 'forget' what we look like. How symmetrical or clear-skinned we are disappears into the experiences we've shared with someone.
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Wahrend Alek zuschaute, begriff er, wie primitiv er das Gerat benutzt hatte, so wie eine Katze, die Klavier spielt.
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And hidden within the agony the strange clarity came again, as if the world had ordered itself into something that made perfect sense.
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It must be horrible to see an ugly face when your surrounded by such beautiful people all the time " . In my opinion , it does happens sometimes ."
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Is it not good to make society full of beautiful people? --Yang Yuan, quoted in the New York Times
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But I wanted to finish your book.
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You weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.
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Instead, she rose a little onto her toes and they kissed again.
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wndf`t tly mn Grf@ l~ 'khr~, why tHwl n tmyz lwjwh dwn 'n tnshGl bhdhh l`ywn lws`@ ljmyl@, 'w trtbk bmsh`r `dm lntm lhw'l l'shkhS. kn sh`wr tly bqbHh yzdd m` kl lHZ@ knt tqDyh hnk, wlm tshkl lDHkt lty tlqth mn kl mn yqblh `wnan kbyran fy hdh "knt tD` qn` wjh lkhnzyr" lkn hdh kn fDl mm knw syf`lwnh lw nhm r'w wjhh lHqyqy."
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Yeah, exactly. But, actually, boards prefer iron. All that glitters is not hovery.
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Dess took a deep breath, feeling a rush of relief now that the proclamation had been made. It was sort of like being the first astronomer to spot one of those big dinosaur-extermination-sized asteroids on its way toward Earth. Sure, this was majorly unpleasant news for everyone, including Dess personally, but at least she got to announce it.
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Gods are so last year," Hiro said, and Aya smiled."
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When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.
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The moment her feet touched the floor, a chill ran up her spine. She was standing on her sweatshirt, which lay next to her bed in a crumpled pile. It was soaking wet.
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Right, and things were so great back when everyone was ugly. Or did you miss that day in school?" "Yeah, yeah, I know," Shay recited. "Everyone judged everyone else based on their appearance. People who were taller got better jobs, and people even voted for some politicians just because they weren't quite as ugly as everybody else. Blah, blah, blah." "Yeah, and people killed one another over stuff like having different skin color." Tally sh..
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Shay's eyes flashed. "Or maybe when they do the operation--when they grind and stretch your bones to the right shape, peel off your face and rub all your skin away, and stick in plastic cheekbones so you look like everybody else--maybe after going through all that you just aren't very interesting anymore." Tally"
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The Rusties had more than one dream ..... After the first crude city killers were invented... they were redesigned to send people into space. Death and hope in one machine,
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You're still yourself on the inside, Shay. But when you're pretty, people pay more attention." "Not everyone thinks that way."
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It didn't matter where, really. What mattered was the connection, the space formed between the two of the, a slice cut from the universe and made private and inviolable.
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If is a word that can never be said too loudly
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Zane's costume surge had worn off; his lips returned to normal pretty fullness. Still, he always looked extreme in daylight. His face was all contrasts, his chin and cheekbones sharp, his forehead high. His skin was the same olive as everyone's, but in the sun, against his dark hair, it somehow looked pale. The operation guidelines wouldn't let you have jet-black hair, which the Committee thought was too extreme, but Zane dyed his with call..
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More important, she had someone else now. However unfair it was that her memories of David had been erased, Tally had built a whole new set of memories, and she couldn't just trade them in for the old ones. Zane and she had helped each other become bubbly, had been imprisoned by the cuffs together, and escaped the city together. She couldn't abandon him now, just because he had been robbed of part of his mind
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I wonder why they never come back," Shay said. "Just to visit." Tally swallowed. "Because we're so ugly, Skinny, that's why."
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She wondered if if there was anyone out there, really, or if David was just some story the Uglies made up to scare each other.
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She started spending more time looking out the window than at her own reflection, as is often the case with troublesome girls.
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Tally really didn't have the strength to explain that she'd really meant her hangover, which was sprawled in her head like an overweight cat, sullen and squishy and disinclined to budge.
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Freedom has a way of destroying things.
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When a single nation's armies are ordered against each other, all is lost.
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I'm sick of the rules and boundaries. The last thing I want is to become some empty-headed new pretty, having one big party all day.
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We were all troublemakers," Zane said. "So we have exciting stuff stored in our heads. But you have to keep telling those stories, listening to one another, and breaking the rules. You have to stay bubbly, or you'll gradually forget everything from back then. Permanently."
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I don't want to be ugly all my life. I want those perfect eyes and lips, and for everyone to look at me and gasp. And for everyone who sees me to think Who's that? and want to get to know me, and listen to what I say." "I'd rather have something to say."
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