Scott Westerfeld Quotes - Page 5

Perhaps Clankers and Darwinists would always be at war, if only in their hearts.

I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people.

When she awoke, the world was on fire.

All that glitters is not hovery.

Once we turn, it’s new pretty, middle pretty, late pretty.” Shay dropped her arms, and her board stopped drifting. “Then dead pretty.

That was the whole point of being special: You existed to make sure everyone else behaved, but that didn't mean YOU had to.

so pRetty i hAd to Eat hiM

He and I have this... personality conflict. Namely, I think he should get a new one.

God, you mean I lost my virginity to the apocalypse?" Morgan sighed again. "The whole thing was really embarrassing; my parents sent me to Brooklyn when they found out." She shrugged. "I thought I’d be safe in a gay bar, okay? What were you doing in there anyway?" Lace looked at me sidelong. "You were where?" I took a sip of beer, swallowed it. "I, uh, hadn’t been in the city...very long. I didn’t know.

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.

You can't blame a match for a house made of straw, Alek.

Two weeks of killer sunburn is worth a lifetime of being gorgeous

The world rests upon a turtle, which itself stands on the back of an elephant!” Alek tried not to laugh. “Then what does the elephant stand on, madam?” “Don’t try to be clever, young man.” She narrowed her eyes. “It’s elephants all the way down!

And it was pretty clear that no prince was showing up, or at least that he was really late.

You fiddle lucker!' she cried.

She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. Tally Youngblood was a weed. And, unlike the orchids, she wasn't even a pretty one.

That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.

you just took on five million years of evolution again

your not alone, Tally. Don't pretend you are

Even mocking people helped their face stats. In the reputation economy, the only real way to hurt anyone was to ignore them completely. And it was pretty hard to ignore someone who made your blood boil.

humanity is a cancer on the body of the world

Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Everyone ugly was in bed by now.

At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.

He turned to face her again, his late-pretty composure crumbling. "But you're..." "Pretty? Think again." She smiled. "I'm Tally Youngbood. My mind is very ugly. And I'm taking your car.

I’m not against thinking; I’m only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed.