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

I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood

Barking hard work, being a boy.

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

I’m not against thinking; I’m only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed.

Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies.

Tally wondered if you could talk somebody out of their brain damage.