you're infamous, Tally. Everyone's terrified of you. The new system may have made the other cities nervous, but they seem to think my little gang of psychotic sixteen-year-olds is worse" - Cable to Tally
In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly.
I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.
My name is tally youngblood and my mind is very ugly
Perhaps Clankers and Darwinists would always be at war, if only in their hearts.
She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. Tally Youngblood was a weed. And, unlike the orchids, she wasn't even a pretty one.