There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you're-in-trouble smile.

Once we turn, it’s new pretty, middle pretty, late pretty.” Shay dropped her arms, and her board stopped drifting. “Then dead pretty.

You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.

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

I feel like sometimes my best friend is not my best friend but my mortal enemy

As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely. (Spoken by Volger, on Deryn)

Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.