there was a beautiful princess with a prince kissing her lips only the prince was totally ugly

The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.

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

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

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

I'm not sure what I am anymore... Sometimes I think I'm nothing but what other people have done to me―a big collection of brainwashing, surgeries, and cures... That, and all the mistakes I've made. All the people I've disappointed.

And over all those sleepy weeks, the dream always ended the same way, with the dragon coming for the princess saying the same words every time.... "Face it, Tally-wa, you're Special.