“Fate didn't care a squick about what anybody was meant to do.”

“What if destiny doesn't care?”

“As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a way that felt like choosing but was actually the dance of little gears--neurons and hormones bubbling up into decisions like clockwork. You don't use your body; it uses you.”

“It didn't matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself.”

“What about a hoverboard?""It's waiting on the roof, of course." Dr. Cable snorted. "What is it about you miscreants and those things?”

“Sometimes Tally felt she could almost accept brain damage if it meant a life without reconstituted noodles.”

“But you know what? It's not my behavior I'm worried about anymore. It's yours.”