Scott Westerfeld Quotes - Page 3

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

I love you all. But it's time to say good-bye, for now. be careful with the world, or the next time we meet, it might get ugly. -Tally Youngblood

So, there was this beautiful princess. She was locked in a high tower(...)She was stuck up there(...)So the only thing was to jump.

They walked with a pedatory grace.... one of them ripped off their hood and said, "my name is Tally Youngblood and is a special circumstance".

Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry.

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Dare to ask, "Where is my novel too simple?"

It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.

The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.

History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.

I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood

There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you're-in-trouble smile.

Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.

Deryn felt brilliant, rising through the air at the center off everyone's attention, like an acrobat aloft on a swing. She wanted to make a speech: Hey, all you sods, I can fly and you can't! A natural airman, in case you haven't noticed. And in conclusion, I'd like to add that I'm a girl and you can all get stuffed!

The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. Of course, Tally thought, you’d have to feed your cat only salmon-flavored cat food for a while, to get the pinks right.

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.

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.

Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.

Which was worse: a friend with brain damage, or one who despised you?

A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.

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.

So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?' -- Tally to Peris

Sometimes you can’t choose what you love.

Fuzzy Tally is no more.