Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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So pretty i had to eat him
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Her only way home was to betray her friend.
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Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice.
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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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Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing nothing.
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Tally-When you looked around at everyone else how come you didn’t notice they were brain damaged? Az - We didn’t have much to compare our fellow citizens with. Only a few colleagues who seemed different from most people, more engaged, but that was hardly a surprise. History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep. Before the operation there were wars and mass hatred and clear cutting. Whatever these lesions make us, it isn’t a far cry from how humanity was in the rusty era. These days we’re just a bit easier to manage.
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I go where the lizards tell me.
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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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We don't always get to choose what we love.
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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 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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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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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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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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Fuzzy Tally is no more.
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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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Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look," she said. "No," David said. "It changes the way you think.
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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.