Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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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.
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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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I spilled more times than a glass of milk on a roller coaster.
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Wow," came a familiar voice, "Hypochondriac killed the cat." -Dess
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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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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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She wasn't here to gawk. She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission.
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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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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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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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Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.
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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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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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Perhaps Clankers and Darwinists would always be at war, if only in their hearts.
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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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And it was pretty clear that no prince was showing up, or at least that he was really late.
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When the term "machine gun" enters common parlance, the word "machine" becomes much more sinister.
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What if destiny doesn't care?
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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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I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people.
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Ah. So he's forgotten the most important rule of warfare. Which is... That nothing ever goes to plan.