Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.
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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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Your not alone, Tally. Don't pretend you are
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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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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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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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Oh, this beast? It's...perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'." "Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled. "And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar.
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When the term "machine gun" enters common parlance, the word "machine" becomes much more sinister.
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But they're already singing our praises!" "They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything.
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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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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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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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Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.
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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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Lilt pulled away. "I saw what he was doing, so I cleared a path for him. I helped him do it..." She shook her head, tears tracking the dust off her face, and turned to stare at the fallen tower. "Have we all gone mad to want this?
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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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You can't blame a match for a house made of straw, Alek.
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Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help.
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I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people.