#uglies edit

"Why didn't you write me?"

"I tried. But it just felt bogus. I'm so different now."

"But we're..." She pointed at her scar.

"Take a look, Tally." He held out his own hand.

The skin was smooth and unblemished. It was a hand that said: I don't have to work very hard, and I'm too clever to have accidents.

The scar that they had made together was gone.

"Shay pulled a hoverboard from under a bush. "You've got a board, right? What'd you do, swim over?"

"No, I... hey, wait. How'd you get a hoverboard to take you across the river?" Anything that flew had minders all over it.

Shay laughed. "That's the oldest trick in the book. I figured you'd know all about it."

Tally shrugged. "I don't board much."

"Well, this one'll take both of us.""

Uglies, Ch 3, Shay

"Tally pushed her way through the drunken dancers, out the other side of the procession, and ran down the side street toward Garbo Mansion, wearing the face of a pig."

Uglies, Ch. 1 New Pretty Town

"Tally reached the edge of the roof, vaulted up onto the rail, and teetered for a moment. Below her, pretties were starting to spill out of Garbo Mansion onto the lawn and down the hill. They were looking back up, searching for smoke or flames. All they saw was her.

It was a long way down, and Tally's stomach already seemed to be in free fall. But she was thrilled, too. The shrieking siren, the crowd gazing at her, the Lights of New Pretty Town all spread out below like a million candles."

Uglies, Ch 2, Best Friends Forever