Tally sighed, tipping her feet again to follow. "Maybe that's because they have better stuff to do than kid tricks. Maybe partying in town is better than hanging out in a bunch of old ruins." Shay's eyes flashed. "Or maybe when they do the operation-when they grind and stretch your bones to the right shape, peel off your face and rub all your skin away, and stick in plastic cheekbones so you look like everyone else-maybe after going through all that you just aren't very interesting anymore.
Scott WesterfeldThe world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.
Scott WesterfeldThat was one problem with dramatic exits: Sometimes they wound up making you look like a bubblehead.
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