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“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”

“Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.”

“Let me get this stright, Aya-Chan. You want me, a person who can't lie, to lie about the fact that I can't lie?"
-Frizz mizuno”

“That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both.”

“… humanity is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world.”

“Sometimes you can’t choose what you love.”

“… I want those perfect eyes and lips, and for everyone to look at me and gasp. And for everyone who sees me to think Who's that? and want to get to know me, and listen to what I say."
"I'd rather have something to say.”

“But it's always taking a risk, when you… kiss someone new.”

“The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.”

“You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.”

“Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.”

“Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.”

“I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.”

“Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.”

“When she awoke, the world was on fire.”

“Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.”

“I love you all. But it's time to say good-bye, for now.
be careful with the world, or the next time we meet, it might get ugly.
-Tally Youngblood”

“We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls.”

“I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood”

“What happens when perfection isn't good enough?”

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

“Having a brain hurt so much sometimes.”

“I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.”

“The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit.”

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

“Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.”

“Her only way home was to betray her friend.”

“Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.”

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