Quotes from book

Specials

“So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?' -- Tally to Peris”

“Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority?”

“What about a hoverboard?"
"It's waiting on the roof, of course." Dr. Cable snorted. "What is it about you miscreants and those things?”

“That was the whole point of being special: You existed to make sure everyone else behaved, but that didn't mean YOU had to.”

“Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry.”

“Having a brain hurt so much sometimes.”

“It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.”

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

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

“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”

“Listen, you bubblehead-up-until-five-minutes-ago…”

“you just took on five million years of evolution again”

“Be careful with the world, or the next time we meet, it might get ugly.”

“That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.”

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

“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.”

“She carried a knife inside of herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her thoughts strayed from the splendor of the wild.”