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41 " Nature, at least, didn’t need an operation to be beautiful. It just was. "
― Scott Westerfeld , Uglies (Uglies, #1)
42 " She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of the other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. "
43 " 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. "
44 " It must be horrible to see an ugly face when your surrounded by such beautiful people all the time. "
45 " Maybe they didn’t want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There’s always one thing we depend on. "
46 " Ninety-nine percent of humanity had had something done to their brains, and only a few people in the world knew exactly what. • "
47 " she’d felt from David was crushed by it. Every day of her life she’d insulted other uglies and had been insulted in return. Fattie, Pig-Eyes, Boney, Zits, Freak—all the names uglies called one another, eagerly and without reserve. But equally, without exception, so that no one felt shut out by some irrelevant mischance of birth. "
48 " Over his years of helping runaways to find the Smoke, David had encountered wild animals, forest fires, and bio-engineered poisonous plants. But nothing was more dangerous than a city afraid of change. "
49 " Tally snorted. “I don’t think it’s exactly boring, Shay.” “Doing what you’re supposed to do is always boring. I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.” “I can,” Tally said quietly. “Never having any. "
50 " 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. "
51 " There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. —Francis Bacon, Essays, Civil and Moral, “Of Beauty "
52 " It’s wrong to live in nature, unless you want to live like an animal. "
53 " That’s how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both. "
54 " She scanned the captives, looking for Shay and David. The familiar faces in the crowd were haggard, dirty, crumpled by shock and defeat, but Tally realized that she no longer thought of them as ugly. It was the cold expressions of the Specials, beautiful though they were, that seemed horrific to her now. A "
55 " Doing what you're supposed to do is always boring. "
56 " When Tally glanced out at the glowing horizon, her eyes opened wide. She’d never seen dawn from outside the city before. Like most uglies, she was rarely up early enough, and in any case the horizon was always hidden behind the skyline of New Pretty Town. The sight of a real sunrise amazed her. A "
57 " Still, she wouldn’t have traded anything for this moment, standing there and looking down at the plains spread out below. Tally had spent the last four years staring at the skyline of New Pretty Town, thinking it was the most beautiful sight in the world, but she didn’t think so anymore. • "
58 " Maybe he really could see past her ugly face. Maybe what was inside her did matter to him more than anything else. Tally "
59 " It must be horrible to see an ugly face when your surrounded by such beautiful people all the time " . In my opinion , it does happens sometimes . "
60 " Is it not good to make society full of beautiful people? —Yang Yuan, quoted in the New York Times "