Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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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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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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It didn't matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself.
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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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You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.
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Frighteningly Beautiful, Dangerously Strong, Breathtakingly Fast. Face it Tally-wa you're special.
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Her only way home was to betray her friend.
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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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Maybe when you look at your face 50 times its really not that interesting anymore
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Cure for writer's block: blow something up(in the story)
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A little drama wins more friends than boring.
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The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.
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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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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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Fuzzy Tally is no more.
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And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?
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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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the parties are no fun until everyone gets drunk
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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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We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in.
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Okay... That's still blind-making.
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Sometimes you can’t choose what you love.
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I make it a policy never to appear surprised" - Dr Barlow