“Nature was tough, it could be dangerous, but unlike Dr. Cable or shay, or peris-unlike people in general-it made sense. The problems it threw at you could be solved rationally.”

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

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

“So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?' -- Tally to Peris”

“you're infamous, Tally. Everyone's terrified of you. The new system may have made the other cities nervous, but they seem to think my little gang of psychotic sixteen-year-olds is worse" - Cable to Tally”

“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.”

“Maybe the natural world wasn't so jaw-droppingly horrible, appaling, nasty, vile. Sometimes nature could be quite sweet, really, as delicate as a confused and horny butterfly.”