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21 " Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. 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. "
― Scott Westerfeld , Uglies (Uglies, #1)
22 " Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty. "
23 " It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home. "
24 " The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them. "
25 " In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly. "
26 " That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both. "
27 " Yes. What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful. "
28 " Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work. "
29 " Doing what you're supposed to do is always boring. I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have fun. "
30 " 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. "
31 " However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally's choice to stay. "
32 " Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look," she said. "No," David said. "It changes the way you think. "
33 " She wasn't here to gawk. She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission. "
34 " The physical beauty…also cleared her mind of worries. Every day seemed to change the mountain, the sky, and the surrounding valleys, making them spectacular in a completely new way. Nature, at least, didn’t need an operation to be beautiful. It just was. "
35 " I'm Tally Youngblood. Make me pretty." -Tally Youngblood "
36 " Or maybe when they do the operation- when they grind and stretch your bones to the right shape, peel off your face and rub all your skin away, and stick in plastic cheekbones so you look like everybody else- maybe after going through all that you just aren't very interesting anymore. -Shay, Uglies "
37 " You don't believe all that crap, do you - that there's one way to look, and everyone is programmed to agree on it? "
38 " There was something magic in their large perfect eyes, something that made you pay attention "
39 " Sometimes Tally felt she could almost accept brain damage if it meant a life without reconstituted noodles. "
40 " Two weeks of killer sunburn is worth a lifetime of being gorgeous "