Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

You'd think that in a fight, NOT MOVING would be a bad habit!

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

Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain—Maddy glanced at Tally—and selfish. It only takes a twist to lock in that part of their personalities. He always thought that some people could think their way out of it.

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

It didn't matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself.

And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?