Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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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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Dare to ask, "Where is my novel too simple?"
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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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Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice.
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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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It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.
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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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We don't always get to choose what we love.
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Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing nothing.
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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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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 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 parties are no fun until everyone gets drunk
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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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My name is tally youngblood and my mind is very ugly
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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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You look beautiful - David
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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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Frighteningly Beautiful, Dangerously Strong, Breathtakingly Fast. Face it Tally-wa you're special.
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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.