Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.

you're infamous, Tally. Everyone's terrified of you. The new system may have made the other cities nervous, but they seem to think my little gang of psychotic sixteen-year-olds is worse" - Cable to Tally

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

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

your not alone, Tally. Don't pretend you are

Oh, this beast? It's...perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'." "Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled. "And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar.

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