Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home.
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You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.
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You look beautiful - David
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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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Barking hard work, being a boy.
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He and I have this... personality conflict. Namely, I think he should get a new one.
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I go where the lizards tell me.
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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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Dare to ask, "Where is my novel too simple?"
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I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I've also learned to making big-scale design decisions early.
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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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Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.
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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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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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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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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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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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Cure for writer's block: blow something up(in the story)
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It's not the way Zane looks, David," she said, her voice trembling with anger. "It's because he makes me bubbly, and because we took a lot of risks together. It could just as easily be me lying there, and he would stay with me if it was." "It's just programming!" "No. It's because I love him.
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We don't always get to choose what we love.
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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.
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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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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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Maybe when you look at your face 50 times its really not that interesting anymore