Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch..

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict..

The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach..

My name is tally youngblood and my mind is very ugly.

Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies..

"Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countri….

Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was..

In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly..

Ring around the rosie. A pocket full of posie. Ashes ashes, we all fall down. Some people say that this poem is about the Black Death, the fourteenth….

What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real lif….

She looked at David closely, and the feeling was still there. She could see that his forehead was too high, that a small scar cut a white stroke thro….

One of the most common questions writers are asked is "Where do you get your ideas?" But the sad truth is, we don't know. Ideas can come at any time ….

I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - ag….

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

Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered..

...I want those perfect eyes and lips, and for everyone to look at me and gasp. And for everyone who sees me to think Who's that? and want to get to ….

Making ourselves feel ugly is not fun." "We are ugly..

You see, freedom has a way of destroying things..

The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them..

Ah. So he's forgotten the most important rule of warfare. Which is... That nothing ever goes to plan..

Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos..