Scott Westerfeld Quotes

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.

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

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.

What if destiny doesn't care?

We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls.

I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people.

The man was allergic to sleep.

Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.

The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. Of course, Tally thought, you’d have to feed your cat only salmon-flavored cat food for a while, to get the pinks right.

All that glitters is not hovery.

Tally wondered if you could talk somebody out of their brain damage.

Once we turn, it’s new pretty, middle pretty, late pretty.” Shay dropped her arms, and her board stopped drifting. “Then dead pretty.

Her only way home was to betray her friend.

Barking hard work, being a boy.

History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.

I love my virginity to the apocalypse.

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.

Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.

Making ourselves feel ugly is not fun." "We are ugly.

Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies.

So, there was this beautiful princess. She was locked in a high tower(...)She was stuck up there(...)So the only thing was to jump.

They walked with a pedatory grace.... one of them ripped off their hood and said, "my name is Tally Youngblood and is a special circumstance".

I love you all. But it's time to say good-bye, for now. be careful with the world, or the next time we meet, it might get ugly. -Tally Youngblood

Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry.

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

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.

Have a little faith in me, Volger." "I have great faith, tempered with vast annoyance.

It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.

Dying is one of those things that can’t be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.

Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look," she said. "No," David said. "It changes the way you think.

Which was worse: a friend with brain damage, or one who despised you?

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.

Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.

Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.

Perhaps it's worth saying again: One reader's discomfort should never stand in the way of another reader's survival.

Dare to ask, "Where is my novel too simple?"

There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you're-in-trouble smile.

Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.

Probably? So you're asking me to trust my life to steel wool and peanut butter?" "Poisoned peanut butter." "Cal, I don't care if it's nuclear peanut butter.

People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.

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Irony is always the best weapon against fascism.

Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.

You’d best ask the lady boffin, sir,” Newkirk said. “Midshipmen aren’t allowed to have opinions.

And it was pretty clear that no prince was showing up, or at least that he was really late.

Two weeks of killer sunburn is worth a lifetime of being gorgeous

It's just the way things are." she shrugged. "It's no one's fault." "Or everyone's.

This is the power of the Goliath, that no one on earth, Clanker or Darwinist, can escape. So we all must learn to share the globe, or perish together!

Perhaps Clankers and Darwinists would always be at war, if only in their hearts.

That was one problem with dramatic exits: Sometimes they wound up making you look like a bubblehead.