Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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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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Dare to ask, "Where is my novel too simple?"
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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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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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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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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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Perhaps Clankers and Darwinists would always be at war, if only in their hearts.
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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee. -Jonathan
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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.
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So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?' -- Tally to Peris
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We don't always get to choose what we love.
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He and I have this... personality conflict. Namely, I think he should get a new one.
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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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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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Her only way home was to betray her friend.
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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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It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.
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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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Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing nothing.
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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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And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?
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You look beautiful - David
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My name is tally youngblood and my mind is very ugly
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High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track.