Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.
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You fiddle lucker!' she cried.
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He and I have this... personality conflict. Namely, I think he should get a new one.
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You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.
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Barking hard work, being a boy.
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Okay... That's still blind-making.
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He thinks Goliath can end the war," Alek managed at last. "The man wants peace!" "As do we all," Count Volger said. "But there are many ways to end a war. Some are more peaceful than others.
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Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.
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Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.
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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.
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If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.
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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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There was a beautiful princess with a prince kissing her lips only the prince was totally ugly
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We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in.
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Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city." "There are no limits in war," Volger said, still staring out the window.
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You and David could both be right. Maybe human beings are programmed … to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad, Tally. Besides, we had a whole city of pretties to choose from, and we chose each other."-Zane
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Why are you still wearing...?" Aya began. "Oh, that's not smart plastic? You're really an ugly?" David rolled his eyes and Shay said quietly, "David's never had any surge at all. But I wouldn't use the word ugly...Tally might eat you.
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You look beautiful - David
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Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its 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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I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time - phones, music players, etc. - are blobjects.
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However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally's choice to stay.
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You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed, with all the cities coming awake at last. Together, you're more than enough to change the world without us. So from now on, David and I are here to stand in your way. You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.
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That letter was your whole future, you daft prince." "It was my past. I lost that the night my parents died. But I found you, Deryn. Maybe I wasn't meant to end the war, but I was meant to find you. I know that. You've saved me from having any reason to keep going." "We save each other. That's how it works.