Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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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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Maybe when you look at your face 50 times its really not that interesting anymore
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We don't always get to choose what we love.
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My name is tally youngblood and my mind is very ugly
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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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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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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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Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing nothing.
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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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Sometimes you can’t choose what you love.
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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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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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Fuzzy Tally is no more.
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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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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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I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.
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And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?
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the parties are no fun until everyone gets drunk
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Her only way home was to betray her friend.
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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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Frighteningly Beautiful, Dangerously Strong, Breathtakingly Fast. Face it Tally-wa you're special.
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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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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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At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.