Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.
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The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.
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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.
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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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Wow," came a familiar voice, "Hypochondriac killed the cat." -Dess
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You're infamous, Tally. Everyone's terrified of you. The new system may have made the other cities nervous, but they seem to think my little gang of psychotic sixteen-year-olds is worse" - Cable to Tally
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Your not alone, Tally. Don't pretend you are
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I spilled more times than a glass of milk on a roller coaster.
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Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they're never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they're about as much good as friends.
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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!
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She wasn't here to gawk. She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission.
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Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.
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And over all those sleepy weeks, the dream always ended the same way, with the dragon coming for the princess saying the same words every time.... "Face it, Tally-wa, you're Special.
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That was the whole point of being special: You existed to make sure everyone else behaved, but that didn't mean YOU had to.
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But they're already singing our praises!" "They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything.
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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.
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When the term "machine gun" enters common parlance, the word "machine" becomes much more sinister.
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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.
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It's just been a long week, that's all." "It's monday night, Jess." "My point exactly.
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Ah. So he's forgotten the most important rule of warfare. Which is... That nothing ever goes to plan.
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Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain—Maddy glanced at Tally—and selfish. It only takes a twist to lock in that part of their personalities. He always thought that some people could think their way out of it.
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And it was pretty clear that no prince was showing up, or at least that he was really late.
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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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You can't blame a match for a house made of straw, Alek.