A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak.
High school wasn’t a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track.
I’m not the one going for a biology degree. I’m just a philosophy major who eats people.
This is the power of the Goliath, that no one on earth, Clanker or Darwinist, can escape. So we all must learn to share the globe, or perish together!
Hard work’s a good distraction.
I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.
I spilled more times than a glass of milk on a roller coaster.
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.
Dare to ask, “Where is my novel too simple?”
Luckily for writers – and unluckily for history – every scientific idea creates human conflict.
That was one problem with dramatic exits: Sometimes they wound up making you look like a bubblehead.
There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you’re-in-trouble smile.
Haven’t you ever known someone rejected by a lover, who, consumed by rage and jealousy, never lets go? They look on from a distance, unseen but boiling inside. The emotion never seems to tire, this hatred mixed with intense obsession, even with a kind of twisted love.
Come on, it’s almost midnight. Let’s go watch them cut the cake.
Where did you get that idea for a nose? – Frizz Mizuno.
Gravity was something you could beat; all it took was hydrogen, hot air, or even a bit of rope. But being a girl was a miserable, never-ending struggle.
I feel like sometimes my best friend is not my best friend but my mortal enemy.
Sooner or later usually means too late.
Dying is one of those things that can’t be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.
Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.