Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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We don't always get to choose what we love.
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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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There was a beautiful princess with a prince kissing her lips only the prince was totally ugly
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So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?' -- Tally to Peris
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Dare to ask, "Where is my novel too simple?"
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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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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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Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice.
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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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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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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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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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Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.
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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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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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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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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee. -Jonathan
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I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.
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He and I have this... personality conflict. Namely, I think he should get a new one.
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Her only way home was to betray her friend.
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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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You look beautiful - David