I'm not sure what I am anymore... Sometimes I think I'm nothing but what other people have done to me―a big collection of brainwashing, surgeries, and cures... That, and all the mistakes I've made. All the people I've disappointed.

She wasn't here to gawk. She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission.

A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.

As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely. (Spoken by Volger, on Deryn)

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.

You look beautiful - David

It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.