You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed, with all the cities coming awake at last. Together, you're more than enough to change the world without us. So from now on, David and I are here to stand in your way. You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.

I kissed him once," she whispered. "Well done. What did he do?" "Um..." Deryn sighed. "He woke up.

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

What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.

Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.

Listen, you bubblehead-up-until-five-minutes-ago.

But you know what? It's not my behavior I'm worried about anymore. It's yours.