People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.

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

Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?" "I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.

you just took on five million years of evolution again

He makes me feel like that. Like flying.

And the worst thing was, there were no mirrors out there in the wild, so the princess was left wondering whether she in fact was still beautiful... or if the fall had changed the story completely.

The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.