Perhaps it's worth saying again: One reader's discomfort should never stand in the way of another reader's survival.

And you know, these things don't last forever.' I know, Mandy. Nothing does.' That's the spirit.

So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?' -- Tally to Peris

Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look," she said. "No," David said. "It changes the way you think.

I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic grab-the-reader technique.

Probably? So you're asking me to trust my life to steel wool and peanut butter?" "Poisoned peanut butter." "Cal, I don't care if it's nuclear peanut butter.

Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry.