Did you really think I was too fragile to know what Deryn was?" "Fragile?" Volger looked about. "I hadn't thought so, but now I find you brooding in a bathroom. This doesn't speak well of your sturdiness.

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I feel like sometimes my best friend is not my best friend but my mortal enemy

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And it was pretty clear that no prince was showing up, or at least that he was really late.

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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.

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it's not called the Rusty Ruins because some guy called Rusty found them.

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He makes me feel like that. Like flying.

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Oh, this beast? It's...perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'." "Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled. "And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar.

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God, you mean I lost my virginity to the apocalypse?" Morgan sighed again. "The whole thing was really embarrassing; my parents sent me to Brooklyn when they found out." She shrugged. "I thought I’d be safe in a gay bar, okay? What were you doing in there anyway?" Lace looked at me sidelong. "You were where?" I took a sip of beer, swallowed it. "I, uh, hadn’t been in the city...very long. I didn’t know.

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Perhaps Clankers and Darwinists would always be at war, if only in their hearts.

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I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people.

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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!

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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.

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That was one problem with dramatic exits: Sometimes they wound up making you look like a bubblehead.

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Making ourselves feel ugly is not fun." "We are ugly.

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The world rests upon a turtle, which itself stands on the back of an elephant!” Alek tried not to laugh. “Then what does the elephant stand on, madam?” “Don’t try to be clever, young man.” She narrowed her eyes. “It’s elephants all the way down!

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I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.

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Hard work's a good distraction.

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Dare to ask, "Where is my novel too simple?"

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Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.

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I used to be a pre-industrial writer: thousands of words in a spurt and then a few days off. But as I get older, I've switched to a mode best described as 'slow and steady wins the race.' Basically, I write during the same four hours every day, after breakfast and the all-important coffee, generally in the same room and wearing the same pajamas.

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I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time - phones, music players, etc. - are blobjects.

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