You’d best ask the lady boffin, sir,” Newkirk said. “Midshipmen aren’t allowed to have opinions.

The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.

What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

My name is tally youngblood and my mind is very ugly

Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.

I'm Tally Youngblood. Make me pretty." -Tally Youngblood

Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.

I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood

However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally's choice to stay.

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.

A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.

There are strangers, people we don't know, who care about is.

I can write better than anyone who can write faster.

Don't worry that other people don't know you; worry that you don't know other people.

Even more real than the disaster that has befallen our brothers and sisters must be our own willingness to sacrifice and help with the healing.

The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.

Ingratitude is often disproportionate to the benefaction received.

I'm not part of the cultural elite. I'm a down-home girl. Always have been, always will be.

I didn't know a lot about Amelia before I started flying. And as a woman and a pilot, I should have known more.

We ought not to criticize, explain, or judge the Scriptures by our mere reason, but diligently, with prayer, meditate thereon, and seek their meaning.

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.