Scott Westerfeld

Author

1963-05-05

Quotes by Scott Westerfeld

• That was the trick - to keep punching, no matter what.

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• Do you love him?"Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. "He makes me feel like that. Like flying.—"Then, you have to tell him.""I told you, I kissed him!""It's hardly the same. I kissed you, after all. That wasn't love, Mr. Sharp.""Aye, and what exactly was it?""Curiosity." Lilit smiled. "And as I said, you're quite a dashing boy.""But I'm pretty sure Alek doesn't want a dashing boy!""You can't be sure until you ask."Deryn shook her head. "You were raised to throw bombs. I wasn't."—Were you raised to wear trousers and be a soldier?

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• Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. I'm Tally Youngblood, she said. make me pretty.

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• With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.

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• Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.

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• When she awoke, the world was on fire.

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• The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.

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• ...humanity is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world.

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• Now,young lady,I suppose you're here for a work assignment.Work? Tally said.They both looked down at her puzzled expression, and Shay burst into laughter.

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• What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

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• You look beautiful - David

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• But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.

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• And the worst thing was, there were no mirrors out there in the wild, so the princess was left wondering whether she in fact was still beautiful... or if the fall had changed the story completely.

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

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• ...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 know me, and listen to what I say.I'd rather have something to say.

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• 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 life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.

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• I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.

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

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• Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.

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• Alek said, Do you think I'm being a fool? I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.

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