Pretties (Uglies, #2)

by Scott Westerfeld

“But people are better now than they used to be. Maybe they have good reasons for changing us, Tally.” “Their reasons don’t mean anything unless I have a choice, Peris. And they don’t give anyone a choice.”

Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain.

Maybe she didn’t need a handsome prince to stay awake—or an ugly one, for that matter. After all, Tally had cured herself without the pill and had made it all the way here on her own.