Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.
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Her only way home was to betray her friend.
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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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It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.
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I feel like sometimes my best friend is not my best friend but my mortal enemy
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Dare to ask, "Where is my novel too simple?"
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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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The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to a steam engine, where you can watch the pistons move and feel the heat of its boilers. I think we miss that visceral appeal of the machine.
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My name is tally youngblood and my mind is very ugly
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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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He and I have this... personality conflict. Namely, I think he should get a new one.
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Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice.
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I go where the lizards tell me.
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They walked with a pedatory grace.... one of them ripped off their hood and said, "my name is Tally Youngblood and is a special circumstance".
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It didn't matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself.
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Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing nothing.
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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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And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?
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We don't always get to choose what we love.
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Cure for writer's block: blow something up(in the story)
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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee. -Jonathan
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Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority?
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You look beautiful - David
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The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.