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

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.

Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse - bright knives slicing the night into pieces.

As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a way that felt like choosing but was actually the dance of little gears--neurons and hormones bubbling up into decisions like clockwork. You don't use your body; it uses you.

there was a beautiful princess with a prince kissing her lips only the prince was totally ugly

Making ourselves feel ugly is not fun." "We are ugly.

Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma.