Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain—Maddy glanced at Tally—and selfish. It only takes a twist to lock in that part of their personalities. He always thought that some people could think their way out of it.

If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.

The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.

The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.

I feel like sometimes my best friend is not my best friend but my mortal enemy

And it was pretty clear that no prince was showing up, or at least that he was really late.

Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies.