Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.

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

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

Dess shook her head. "Before he walked off, Rex said for you to wait. He said it's totally important you don't touch Angie until he comes back. and he said that if you were a pain about it, I get to hit you with that." She pointed to where the darkling had flung Flabbergasted Supernumerary Mathematician, its tip blackened by ichor and fire. "So, go ahead.

I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.

Why are you still wearing...?" Aya began. "Oh, that's not smart plastic? You're really an ugly?" David rolled his eyes and Shay said quietly, "David's never had any surge at all. But I wouldn't use the word ugly...Tally might eat you.

Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.