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

That letter was your whole future, you daft prince." "It was my past. I lost that the night my parents died. But I found you, Deryn. Maybe I wasn't meant to end the war, but I was meant to find you. I know that. You've saved me from having any reason to keep going." "We save each other. That's how it works.

You fiddle lucker!' she cried.

Now,young lady,I suppose you're here for a work assignment." Work?" Tally said. They both looked down at her puzzled expression, and Shay burst into laughter.

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

The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.

Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority?