Scott Westerfeld Quotes - Page 8

He squeezed her hand. "Then I'll come get you, wherever you are when it happens. We'll be okay." "But what about everybody else?" He stared out across the river, nodding slowly. "My guess is, everybody else is in big trouble.

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.

Okay... That's still blind-making.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Her only way home was to betray her friend.

I make it a policy never to appear surprised" - Dr Barlow

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.

I know what it’s like to be manipulated, Aya-la. And I know what it’s like to be in danger. While your city was building you mansions to live in, my friends and I have been protecting this planet. We’ve spilled more blood than you have flowing in your veins. So don’t try to make me feel guilty! -Tally Youngblood, Extras

Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority?

If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.

Lilt pulled away. "I saw what he was doing, so I cleared a path for him. I helped him do it..." She shook her head, tears tracking the dust off her face, and turned to stare at the fallen tower. "Have we all gone mad to want this?

You look beautiful - David

it's not called the Rusty Ruins because some guy called Rusty found them.

Hard work's a good distraction.

What about a hoverboard?" "It's waiting on the roof, of course." Dr. Cable snorted. "What is it about you miscreants and those things?

And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee. -Jonathan

Nature was tough, it could be dangerous, but unlike Dr. Cable or shay, or peris-unlike people in general-it made sense. The problems it threw at you could be solved rationally.

But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.

But it's always taking a risk, when you ... kiss someone new.

But you know what? It's not my behavior I'm worried about anymore. It's yours.

Barking hard work, being a boy.

The man was allergic to sleep.

Oh, this beast? It's...perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'." "Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled. "And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar.

Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city." "There are no limits in war," Volger said, still staring out the window.