Scott Westerfeld Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”
-- Scott WesterfeldSource : Scott Westerfeld (2013). “Mind-Rain: Your Favorite Authors on Scott Westerfeld's Uglies Series”, p.207, BenBella Books, Inc.
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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.”
-- Scott WesterfeldSource : Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Uglies”, p.238, Simon and Schuster
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“I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.”
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“The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.”
-- Scott WesterfeldSource : Scott Westerfeld (2006). “Peeps”, p.23, Penguin
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“Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.”
-- Scott WesterfeldSource : Scott Westerfeld (2009). “Bogus to Bubbly: An Insider's Guide to the World of Uglies”, p.1, Simon and Schuster
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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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“A little drama wins more friends than boring.”
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“Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.”
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“We don't always get to choose what we love.”
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“Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.”
-- Scott WesterfeldSource : Scott Westerfeld (2015). “Uglies & Pretties: Uglies; Pretties”, p.263, Simon and Schuster
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“Why are you still wearing...?" Aya began. "Oh, that's not smart plastic? You're really an ugly?" David rolled his eyes and Shay said quietly, "David's never had any surge at all. But I wouldn't use the word ugly...Tally might eat you.”
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“The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.”
-- Scott WesterfeldSource : Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Uglies”, p.166, Simon and Schuster
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“I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.”
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“The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.”
-- Scott WesterfeldSource : Scott Westerfeld (2015). “Uglies & Pretties: Uglies; Pretties”, p.312, Simon and Schuster
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“It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.”
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“The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit.”
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“Sometimes you can’t choose what you love.”
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“Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.”
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“I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.”
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“Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.”
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“As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a way that felt like choosing but was actually the dance of little gears--neurons and hormones bubbling up into decisions like clockwork. You don't use your body; it uses you.”
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“Two weeks of killer sunburn is worth a lifetime of being gorgeous”
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“Ring around the rosie. A pocket full of posie. Ashes ashes, we all fall down. Some people say that this poem is about the Black Death, the fourteenth-century plague that killed 100-million people... Sadly, though, most experts think this is nonsense... How can I be so sure about this rhyme when all the experts disagree? Because I ate the kid who made it up.”
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“Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.”
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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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“If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.”
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“That was the whole point of being special: You existed to make sure everyone else behaved, but that didn't mean YOU had to.”
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“A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak.”
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“He and I have this... personality conflict. Namely, I think he should get a new one.”
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“To everyone who loves a long-secret romance, revealed at last.”
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