You're splitting?" "No sh*it, Sherlock.

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

Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain.

You're insane!" she shouted. "Pretty cool, huh?" "No!"Tally yelled. "Why didn't you tell me it was broken?" Shay shrugged. "More fun that way?" "More fun?" Her heart beating fast,her vision strangely clear. She was full of anger and relief and...joy. "Well, kind of. But you suck!

That was one problem with dramatic exits: Sometimes they wound up making you look like a bubblehead.

At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.

I kissed him once," she whispered. "Well done. What did he do?" "Um..." Deryn sighed. "He woke up.