It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home.
("Uglies")
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Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.
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I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood
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