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

Gravity was something you could beat; all it took was hydrogen, hot air, or even a bit of rope. But being a girl was a miserable, never-ending struggle.

If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.

She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. Tally Youngblood was a weed. And, unlike the orchids, she wasn't even a pretty one.

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.

Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty.

No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.