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“It's time, Perry". He let her go. She took a step back, taking in his face one last time. His green eyes. The bend in his nose and the scars on his cheek. All the tiny inperfections that made him b...”
“That what?" "That I knew i misjudged you. That you love him. I'm not saying In what way. Maybe you don't know yourself. But anyone paying attention could see how much you care about him," he says g...”
“I had evolved a year too soon, and it nearly broke me”
“I would rather never make a penny on book sales and know that many had derived some fair pleasure from my writing, than to know that very few had ever taken a chance on my work. I certainly won't l...”
“When you stop being owned by your emotions you'll stop feeling vulnerable to people. ~ Remiel”
“I am chaos in this ordered society, the flaw in a carefully wrought plan. I am turbulence in the queen's eternal river.”
“... Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.”
“When I watched you dancing that day, I saw something else. I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a harsh, cruel world....”
“Pluto claimed that in ancient times, all humans had been a combination of male and female. Each person had two heads, four arms, four legs. Supposedly, these combo-humans had been so powerful they ...”
“You pays your money and you takes your choice.”
“But a thought swarmed in me; what if he, this yellow-eyed being in his ridiculous, dirty bundle of trees, in his uncalculated life is happier than us?”
“Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.”
“It had been along time since I breached the surface of the world above. My parents wouldnt allow it. So as far as I knew, the survivors that remained were savages. Id seen a few things before our c...”
“Everybody stood dead still. It was as if now that we were about to get out of the Tower for the first time since the flood, we were scared, like we were crossing some line that we wouldnt be able t...”
“Its degrading being routinely subjected to a battery of medical tests to ensure I continue to deserve a place in this new world.”
“I have been speaking to you all of your life. In the gurgle of a tide pool, I breathed myself into you. I drew you down from the trees and I lifted you onto your feet. I freed your hands to become ...”
“Biking up the same mile-and-a-half long asphalt hill is so much harder when I know that at the end of the journey Ill either be an outlaw, or Ill be dead.”
“Are you in any pain? (Ariana Skyee)Only my heart. (Cal Remus)”
“I would cry if I could, but instead I just feel my heart rip apart.”
“The law isn't merciful.”
