Scott Westerfeld
23 quotes
Biography
"What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful."
"The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side."
"Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same."
"I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth."
"You're insane!"she shouted."Pretty cool, huh?""No!"Tally yelled. "Why didn't you tell me it was broken?"Shay shrugged. "More fun that way?""More fun?"Her heart beating fast,her vision strangely clear. She was full of anger and relief and...joy."Well, kind of. But you suck!"
"I spilled more times than a glass of milk on a roller coaster."
"And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag."
"At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated."
"The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind."
"Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help."
"I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady."Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. "There are always rewards for those who state the obvious frequently and with conviction."
"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."
"Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered."
"All that glitters is not hovery."
"Tally wondered if you could talk somebody out of their brain damage."
"I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun."
"You don't look very happy."Tally tried to smile. David had shared his biggest secret with her; she should tell him hers. But she wasn't brave enough to say the words. "It's been a long night. That's all."He smiled back. "Don't worry, it won't last forever."
"Weird, even for one of us. Or maybe she's worse.""Worse how?""Normal."
"Maybe they’re not as mindless as we thought, or so dedicated to turning every last human into one of them. Like Kalyn says, they were just bored, waiting for something better to happen.And that better thing is us."
"I love my virginity to the apocalypse."
"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."
"I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time - phones, music players, etc. - are blobjects."
"The difference between being a part-time writer and a full-time writer is like the difference between dating someone and living with them. Some of the romance is gone, but you learn things you'd never know just by dating."