Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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Frighteningly Beautiful, Dangerously Strong, Breathtakingly Fast. Face it Tally-wa you're special.
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She looked at David closely, and the feeling was still there. She could see that his forehead was too high, that a small scar cut a white stroke through his eyebrow. And his smile was pretty crooked, really. But it was as if something had changed inside Tally's head, something that had turned his face pretty to her.
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Perhaps Clankers and Darwinists would always be at war, if only in their hearts.
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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.
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She carried a knife inside of herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her thoughts strayed from the splendor of the wild.
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I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.
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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.
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Maybe when you look at your face 50 times its really not that interesting anymore
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the parties are no fun until everyone gets drunk
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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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Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.
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Gravity was something you could beat; all it took was hydrogen, hot air, or even a bit of rope. But being a girl was a miserable, never-ending struggle.
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We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in.
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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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Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.
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I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic grab-the-reader technique.
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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 makes me feel like that. Like flying.
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A little drama wins more friends than boring.
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Fuzzy Tally is no more.
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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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As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely. (Spoken by Volger, on Deryn)
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At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.
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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.