Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty.

I spilled more times than a glass of milk on a roller coaster.

What about a hoverboard?" "It's waiting on the roof, of course." Dr. Cable snorted. "What is it about you miscreants and those things?

However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally's choice to stay.

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

Haven't you ever known someone rejected by a lover, who, consumed by rage and jealousy, never lets go? They look on from a distance, unseen but boiling inside. The emotion never seems to tire, this hatred mixed with intense obsession, even with a kind of twisted love.

Did you really think I was too fragile to know what Deryn was?" "Fragile?" Volger looked about. "I hadn't thought so, but now I find you brooding in a bathroom. This doesn't speak well of your sturdiness.