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

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.

And over all those sleepy weeks, the dream always ended the same way, with the dragon coming for the princess saying the same words every time.... "Face it, Tally-wa, you're Special.

We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in.

so pRetty i hAd to Eat hiM

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.

We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls.