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550280e	She needed Andrew Simpson Smith, it was that simple. And he had spent his life training to help people like her. Gods. "Okay, Andrew. But let's leave today. I'm in a hurry." "Of course. Today." He stroked the place where his slight beard was beginning to grow. "These ruins where your friends are waiting? Where are they?" Tally glances up at the sun, still low enough to indicate the eastern horizon. After a moment's calculation, she pointed..	time world funny	Scott Westerfeld
17d7ebe	Perhaps Clankers and Darwinists would always be at war, if only in their hearts.		Scott Westerfeld
4a99f5d	Rex lost his specs.		Scott Westerfeld
3706f74	Assisted him? Dylan made the repairs. I only fell and hit my head, from what I can recall. Yes, I make excellent deadweight.		Scott Westerfeld
47741aa	That was the trick- to keep punching, no matter what.	success	Scott Westerfeld
f0424f6	God, you mean I lost my virginity to the apocalypse?" Morgan sighed again. "The whole thing was really embarrassing; my parents sent me to Brooklyn when they found out." She shrugged. "I thought I'd be safe in a gay bar, okay? What were you doing in there anyway?" Lace looked at me sidelong. "You were where?" I took a sip of beer, swallowed it. "I, uh, hadn't been in the city...very long. I didn't know."	cal-thompson gay-bar virginity	Scott Westerfeld
8b33db8	That was one problem with dramatic exits: Sometimes they wound up making you look like a bubblehead.		Scott Westerfeld
df908c1	A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak.	rat-speak strainer rat	Scott Westerfeld
3349b6a	Nummy-time!"--Cal"	scott-westerfeld peeps	Scott Westerfeld
ef902e8	You don't believe all that crap, do you - that there's one way to look, and everyone is programmed to agree on it?		Scott Westerfeld
796f2a4	Ah. So he's forgotten the most important rule of warfare. Which is... That nothing ever goes to plan.		Scott Westerfeld
058aa34	Making ourselves feel ugly is not fun." "We are ugly."	ugly	Scott Westerfeld
feb7e76	Dr. Barlow, it is, of course, customary to check with the caption before, uh, giving away his ship." -Deryn Sharp"		Scott Westerfeld
6e98b76	Being fathomed was even better than being flattered, it turned out.		Scott Westerfeld
a4969db	And what can we conclude from this lesson, Your Highness?" Alek glared at the man. "We can conclude, Count Volger, that discussing politics while fencing is idiotic."		Scott Westerfeld
e5d03e0	Alek: "Am I that obvious?" Deryn: "No. Im just dead clever."		Scott Westerfeld
3c0f245	First love is amazing and wonderful, but a kind of panic underlies it, a sense of not knowing what you're doing.	relationship	Scott Westerfeld
55558ff	You'd best ask the lady boffin, sir," Newkirk said. "Midshipmen aren't allowed to have opinions."		Scott Westerfeld
d29dbfc	Okay... That's still blind-making.		Scott Westerfeld
db2a6c7	Wisdom tells me i'm nothing, love tells me I'm everything.		Scott Westerfeld
25122d8	He squeezed her hand. "Then I'll come get you, wherever you are when it happens. We'll be okay." "But what about everybody else?" He stared out across the river, nodding slowly. "My guess is, everybody else is in big trouble."	jonathan	Scott Westerfeld
dc60534	In a novel you always knew the moment when something Happened, when someone Changed. But real life was full of gradual, piecemeal, continuous transformation. It was full of accidents and undefineables, and things that just happened on their own. The only certainty was 'It's complicated,' whether or not unicorns tolerated your touch.		Scott Westerfeld
c706626	God, you mean I lost my virginity to the apocalypse?!	scott-westerfeld peeps	Scott Westerfeld
28e2e1f	This is the power of the Goliath, that no one on earth, Clanker or Darwinist, can escape. So we all must learn to share the globe, or perish together!		Scott Westerfeld
2bb3f23	You have a bad habit of listing anything that can go wrong, Volger." "I have always considered that a good habit" --	habits	Scott Westerfeld
16e71a9	And here's what I realized: You Sly Girls don't cry when you watch the big-face parties on the feeds, just because you weren't invited. You don't stay friends with people you hate, just to bump your face rank. And even though nobody knows what you're doing out here, you don't feel invisible at all. Do you? No one answered, but they were listening. Fame is radically stupid, that's all. So I want to try something else.		Scott Westerfeld
321c780	Sleep is a little slice of death.		Scott Westerfeld
8479c5f	Fuzzy Tally is no more.		Scott Westerfeld
c8dd12c	I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people.	funny humor parasites zombies vampires	Scott Westerfeld
c36294c	Barking machines!" Dylan exclaimed. "Didn't I tell you? I've never seen a beastie that couldn't get up on its own. Well, except a turtle. And one of my auntie's cats." Alek raised an eyebrow. "And I'm sure your auntie's cat would have survived that aerial bomb." "You'd be surprised. He's quite fast."		Scott Westerfeld
2de6bdd	She'd never have to cut herself again. She carries a knife inside herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her thoughts strayed.		Scott Westerfeld
6d119bb	That's the worst thing they do to you, to any of you. Whatever those brain lesions are all about, the worst damage is done before they even pick up the knife: You're all brainwashed into believing you're ugly.	beauty brainwash think-on thought-provoking pretty thought ugly	Scott Westerfeld
1d14923	Hoverboarding looks so fun, like being a bird. But actually doing it is hard work." Shay shrugged. "Being a bird's probably hard work too. Flapping your wings all day, you know?"		Scott Westerfeld
41156b0	It's exciting. But you can't keep fighting the way things are forever.		Scott Westerfeld
faeff97	Keep challenging the gods		Scott Westerfeld
df8d7cc	Anything more than friendship with her would destroy his chances of taking the throne. But every time one of them had fallen - in the snows of the Alps, in Istanbul, on the stormy topside, in that dusty canyon - the other had been there to pick them up. She couldn't imagine Alek leaving her for some daft crown and scepter.		Scott Westerfeld
a1d0eef	Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.		Scott Westerfeld
bfdb318	Deryn had been there every step of the way. "We are connected, aren't we?" "Aye," she said, still chewing. "And for us to meet at all, I had to pretend to be a boy. Fancy that." "Barking destiny," Bovril said, then burped. Alek put his hands up in surrender. There were worse things than being connected to Deryn Sharp. In fact, the simple fact that she was smiling sent a wave of relief through him--she was his ally again, his friend. Pro..		Scott Westerfeld
85aff64	I kissed him once," she whispered.	love scott westerfeld	Scott Westerfeld
37eec32	There was something magic in their large perfect eyes, something that made you pay attention		Scott Westerfeld
a9f5bb6	Sometimes Tally felt she could almost accept brain damage if it meant a life without reconstituted noodles.		Scott Westerfeld
24a31f0	Nature can blow me.		Scott Westerfeld
5c6dfe1	So my foolhardiness has produced the correct strategy, Count?" "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."		Scott Westerfeld
0d18a05	I make it a policy never to appear surprised" - Dr Barlow" --		Scott Westerfeld

550280e

She needed Andrew Simpson Smith, it was that simple. And he had spent his life training to help people like her. Gods. "Okay, Andrew. But let's leave today. I'm in a hurry." "Of course. Today." He stroked the place where his slight beard was beginning to grow. "These ruins where your friends are waiting? Where are they?" Tally glances up at the sun, still low enough to indicate the eastern horizon. After a moment's calculation, she pointed..

time world funny

Scott Westerfeld

17d7ebe

Perhaps Clankers and Darwinists would always be at war, if only in their hearts.

Scott Westerfeld

4a99f5d

Rex lost his specs.

Scott Westerfeld

3706f74

Assisted him? Dylan made the repairs. I only fell and hit my head, from what I can recall. Yes, I make excellent deadweight.

Scott Westerfeld

47741aa

That was the trick- to keep punching, no matter what.

success

Scott Westerfeld

f0424f6

God, you mean I lost my virginity to the apocalypse?" Morgan sighed again. "The whole thing was really embarrassing; my parents sent me to Brooklyn when they found out." She shrugged. "I thought I'd be safe in a gay bar, okay? What were you doing in there anyway?" Lace looked at me sidelong. "You were where?" I took a sip of beer, swallowed it. "I, uh, hadn't been in the city...very long. I didn't know."

cal-thompson gay-bar virginity

Scott Westerfeld

8b33db8

That was one problem with dramatic exits: Sometimes they wound up making you look like a bubblehead.

Scott Westerfeld

df908c1

A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak.

rat-speak strainer rat

Scott Westerfeld

3349b6a

Nummy-time!"--Cal"

scott-westerfeld peeps

Scott Westerfeld

ef902e8

You don't believe all that crap, do you - that there's one way to look, and everyone is programmed to agree on it?

Scott Westerfeld

796f2a4

Ah. So he's forgotten the most important rule of warfare. Which is... That nothing ever goes to plan.

Scott Westerfeld

058aa34

Making ourselves feel ugly is not fun." "We are ugly."

ugly

Scott Westerfeld

feb7e76

Dr. Barlow, it is, of course, customary to check with the caption before, uh, giving away his ship." -Deryn Sharp"

Scott Westerfeld

6e98b76

Being fathomed was even better than being flattered, it turned out.

Scott Westerfeld

a4969db

And what can we conclude from this lesson, Your Highness?" Alek glared at the man. "We can conclude, Count Volger, that discussing politics while fencing is idiotic."

Scott Westerfeld

e5d03e0

Alek: "Am I that obvious?" Deryn: "No. Im just dead clever."

Scott Westerfeld

3c0f245

First love is amazing and wonderful, but a kind of panic underlies it, a sense of not knowing what you're doing.

relationship

Scott Westerfeld

55558ff

You'd best ask the lady boffin, sir," Newkirk said. "Midshipmen aren't allowed to have opinions."

Scott Westerfeld

d29dbfc

Okay... That's still blind-making.

Scott Westerfeld

db2a6c7

Wisdom tells me i'm nothing, love tells me I'm everything.

Scott Westerfeld

25122d8

He squeezed her hand. "Then I'll come get you, wherever you are when it happens. We'll be okay." "But what about everybody else?" He stared out across the river, nodding slowly. "My guess is, everybody else is in big trouble."

jonathan

Scott Westerfeld

dc60534

In a novel you always knew the moment when something Happened, when someone Changed. But real life was full of gradual, piecemeal, continuous transformation. It was full of accidents and undefineables, and things that just happened on their own. The only certainty was 'It's complicated,' whether or not unicorns tolerated your touch.

Scott Westerfeld

c706626

God, you mean I lost my virginity to the apocalypse?!

scott-westerfeld peeps

Scott Westerfeld

28e2e1f

This is the power of the Goliath, that no one on earth, Clanker or Darwinist, can escape. So we all must learn to share the globe, or perish together!

Scott Westerfeld

2bb3f23

You have a bad habit of listing anything that can go wrong, Volger." "I have always considered that a good habit" --

habits

Scott Westerfeld

16e71a9

And here's what I realized: You Sly Girls don't cry when you watch the big-face parties on the feeds, just because you weren't invited. You don't stay friends with people you hate, just to bump your face rank. And even though nobody knows what you're doing out here, you don't feel invisible at all. Do you? No one answered, but they were listening. Fame is radically stupid, that's all. So I want to try something else.

Scott Westerfeld

321c780

Sleep is a little slice of death.

Scott Westerfeld

8479c5f

Fuzzy Tally is no more.

Scott Westerfeld

c8dd12c

I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people.

funny humor parasites zombies vampires

Scott Westerfeld

c36294c

Barking machines!" Dylan exclaimed. "Didn't I tell you? I've never seen a beastie that couldn't get up on its own. Well, except a turtle. And one of my auntie's cats." Alek raised an eyebrow. "And I'm sure your auntie's cat would have survived that aerial bomb." "You'd be surprised. He's quite fast."

Scott Westerfeld

2de6bdd

She'd never have to cut herself again. She carries a knife inside herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her thoughts strayed.

Scott Westerfeld

6d119bb

That's the worst thing they do to you, to any of you. Whatever those brain lesions are all about, the worst damage is done before they even pick up the knife: You're all brainwashed into believing you're ugly.

beauty brainwash think-on thought-provoking pretty thought ugly

Scott Westerfeld

1d14923

Hoverboarding looks so fun, like being a bird. But actually doing it is hard work." Shay shrugged. "Being a bird's probably hard work too. Flapping your wings all day, you know?"

Scott Westerfeld

41156b0

It's exciting. But you can't keep fighting the way things are forever.

Scott Westerfeld

faeff97

Keep challenging the gods

Scott Westerfeld

df8d7cc

Anything more than friendship with her would destroy his chances of taking the throne. But every time one of them had fallen - in the snows of the Alps, in Istanbul, on the stormy topside, in that dusty canyon - the other had been there to pick them up. She couldn't imagine Alek leaving her for some daft crown and scepter.

Scott Westerfeld

a1d0eef

Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.

Scott Westerfeld

bfdb318

Deryn had been there every step of the way. "We are connected, aren't we?" "Aye," she said, still chewing. "And for us to meet at all, I had to pretend to be a boy. Fancy that." "Barking destiny," Bovril said, then burped. Alek put his hands up in surrender. There were worse things than being connected to Deryn Sharp. In fact, the simple fact that she was smiling sent a wave of relief through him--she was his ally again, his friend. Pro..