Lilt pulled away. "I saw what he was doing, so I cleared a path for him. I helped him do it..." She shook her head, tears tracking the dust off her face, and turned to stare at the fallen tower. "Have we all gone mad to want this?

Sometimes you can’t choose what you love.

Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.

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

When the term "machine gun" enters common parlance, the word "machine" becomes much more sinister.

What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

It's just been a long week, that's all." "It's monday night, Jess." "My point exactly.