Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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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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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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Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority?
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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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There was a beautiful princess with a prince kissing her lips only the prince was totally ugly
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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.
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I go where the lizards tell me.
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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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We don't always get to choose what we love.
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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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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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You look beautiful - David
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So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?' -- Tally to Peris
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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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And you've actually watched it yourself?' I asked. 'Willingly?' Sure. I had to see it, you know? Besides we should be safe. Only one in twenty viewers actually had a bad reaction. And it was mostly kids who were affected. I mean younger than you guys. I think the average age was about ten.' That made me feel somewhat better. But that was a kid's show,' said Jen. 'Maybe it affects everyone, but not that many adults were watching.' That made me feel less better. I wanted my protective bangs back.
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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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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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You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.
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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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He and I have this... personality conflict. Namely, I think he should get a new one.
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Dare to ask, "Where is my novel too simple?"
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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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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.