Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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My name is tally youngblood and my mind is very ugly
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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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Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing nothing.
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A little drama wins more friends than boring.
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Frighteningly Beautiful, Dangerously Strong, Breathtakingly Fast. Face it Tally-wa you're special.
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Maybe when you look at your face 50 times its really not that interesting anymore
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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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And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?
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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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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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It didn't matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself.
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Fuzzy Tally is no more.
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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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Cure for writer's block: blow something up(in the story)
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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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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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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