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She smiled, turning toward Alek. "You don't know what a friend you have in Dylan."
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Didn't this beat everything? A pretty and an ugly taking a stroll together. The warden came closer, confusion all over his middle-pretty face. Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "Make me pretty."
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But 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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You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.
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Miss Rogers waved a hand. "But Mr. Hearst just wants a dramatic story. If the rebels destroy us, he'll get no story at all!" "Aye, but has anyone explained that to the barking rebels?" "These are rebels, young man. They have !" "That's no guarantee of sanity!"
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My name is tally youngblood and my mind is very ugly
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People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.
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Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?" "I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war."
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The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. Of course, Tally thought, you'd have to feed your cat only salmon-flavored cat food for a while, to get the pinks right.
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Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
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Wow," came a familiar voice, "Hypochondriac killed the cat." -Dess"
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Dying is one of those things that can't be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.
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Sprinkled across the black waters below were at least a hundred small boats set out to greet the , their navigation lights like shifting stars. Among them loomed a glittering cruise liner, her fog horn bellowing in the night. The low groan grew into a chorus as the other great ships in the harbor joined in. Perched on Volger's desk, Bovril attempted to imitate the horns, but wound up sounding like a badly blown tuba. Alek smiled. "But they..
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Fifteen!" Dess's distant cry reached him. "Where the hell are you, Rex? Ten. You're-an-idiot-nine, get-back-here-eight, you-dimwit-seven..."
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The man was allergic to sleep.
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Did you really think I was too fragile to know what Deryn was?" "Fragile?" Volger looked about. "I hadn't thought so, but now I find you brooding in a bathroom. This doesn't speak well of your sturdiness."
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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee. -Jonathan
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She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. Tally Youngblood was a weed. And, unlike the orchids, she wasn't even a pretty one.
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What if destiny doesn't care?
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It's just been a long week, that's all." "It's monday night, Jess." "My point exactly."
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She carried a knife inside of herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her thoughts strayed from the splendor of the wild.
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And you know, these things don't last forever.' I know, Mandy. Nothing does.' That's the spirit.
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It's just programming" "No. It's because I love him"
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However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally's choice to stay.
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I go where the lizards tell me.
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He thinks Goliath can end the war," Alek managed at last. "The man wants peace!" "As do we all," Count Volger said. "But there are many ways to end a war. Some are more peaceful than others."
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So, there was this beautiful princess. She was locked in a high tower(...)She was stuck up there(...)So the only thing was to jump.
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Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse - bright knives slicing the night into pieces.
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Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma.
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Tally-When you looked around at everyone else how come you didn't notice they were brain damaged? Az - We didn't have much to compare our fellow citizens with. Only a few colleagues who seemed different from most people, more engaged, but that was hardly a surprise. History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep. Before the operation there were wars and mass hatred and clear cutting. Whatever these lesions make us..
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Nature was tough, it could be dangerous, but unlike Dr. Cable or shay, or peris-unlike people in general-it made sense. The problems it threw at you could be solved rationally.
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History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.
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But it's always taking a risk, when you ... kiss someone new.
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Being an author sucks, doesn't it? It's like telling a joke and nobody laughs for two years.
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So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?' -- Tally to Peris
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Bubbly is bogus.
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They'll be fine," Wickersham said. "Practice makes perfect." I had to ask. "You running away?" "We knew we'd make enemies. Other organizations have fire drills; we have oh-shit-someone-found-our-ass drills."
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Lilt pulled away. "I saw what he was doing, so I cleared a path for him. I helped him do it..." She shook her head, tears tracking the dust off her face, and turned to stare at the fallen tower. "Have we all gone mad to want this?"
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Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city." "There are no limits in war," Volger said, still staring out the window."
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Probably? So you're asking me to trust my life to steel wool and peanut butter?" "Poisoned peanut butter." "Cal, I don't care if it's nuclear peanut butter."
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Where did you get that idea for a nose? - Frizz Mizuno
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Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry.
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so pRetty i hAd to Eat hiM
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In the blue time, math kicked ass. -Dess
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