"Pretties" Quotes
In "Pretties," Tally Youngblood navigates a superficial, pleasure-obsessed society after undergoing surgery to become a Pretty, while secretly fighting to regain her true self and expose the truth behind the city's controlling regime.
young adult | 370 pages | Published in 2005
Quotes
The only way to be happy is to love. Unless you love, your life will flash by.
Maybe freedom was something you worked for, not something you were given.
People think they know you. They think they know how you're handling a situation. But the truth is no one knows. No one knows what happens after you leave them, when you're lying in bed or sitting over your breakfast alone and all you want to do is cry or scream.
Sometimes, she imagined what he would think if he could see her now. Would he be proud or disappointed? Would he recognize her at all?
The more you know someone, the better you can love them.
Sometimes you just needed someone who would listen. Not fix or judge or even speak, just listen.
Maybe being yourself means letting people love you for who you really are.
No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.
Sometimes it's better to bunk a class and enjoy with friends, because now, when I look back, marks never make me laugh, but memories do.
Maybe happiness didn't have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about stringing together a bunch of small pleasures.
