Quotes from book

Uglies

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

“… 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.”

“History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.”

“She wasn't here to gawk. She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission.”

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

“It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home.”

“Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look," she said. "No," David said. "It changes the way you think.”

“The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.”

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

“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.”

“The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. Of course, Tally thought, you’d have to feed your cat only salmon-flavored cat food for a while, to get the pinks right.”

“The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.”

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

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

“But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.”

“Doing what you're supposed to do is always boring. I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.”

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

“Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.”

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