Adulation is like rain. You can only get so wet.
From now on, no one rewires my mind but me.
A milli-Helen is enough beauty to launch exactly one ship.
She laughed and broke into a run, racing out to grab handfuls of raindrops from the air, all alone in a world of diamonds.
Controlling someone by changing their brain is like trying to stop a hovercar by digging a ditch. If they think hard enough, they can fly right over.
Nice concept. But is it a trilogy or a tweet?” “I can’t tell any more.
The scent of a faraway place lay on my skin.
More lies, but maybe lies were better than the truth.
Looking for a thousand years is worth it, if in the end you find what you need.
Nate liked money. It was a sleek and clever invention, beautiful in the way it lubricated power and focused people’s attention. But it had a clumsy, brutal side, too. Money bludgeoned people without it into silence, shut them away in neighborhoods like this.
Mindy had explained that a lot of things had ghosts, not just people. Animals, machines, even things as vast as a paved-over forest or as humble as the smell of good cooking could leave traces of themselves behind. The world was haunted by the past.
They broke things.
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.
How come you forget English when you swear?
Maybe that was the point of truth-you could erase it all you wanted, and it was there was to be discovered again.
If Chizara was agreeing with Ethan, things were bad.
As Melissa got closer, the taste of school began to foul her mouth.
Maybe Flicker’s power made her think differently than most people. She saw the world from so many perspectives, and seeing was half of enlightenment.
I’m here to learn. And what you have taught me is to avoid love as long as possible.
The opening chapter was the book’s unique selling point, the singular idea that had carried Darcy through last November, and Coleman had just come up with it off the top of his head.