Without lesions making everyone agreeable, society was left roiling in a constant battle of words, images, and ideas. All around her Tally felt the city seething, all those unfettered minds bouncing their opinions off each other, like something ready to explode.

— Scott Westerfeld

Scott Westerfeld Quotes

Sooner or later usually means too late.

— Scott Westerfeld

Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.

— Scott Westerfeld

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

— Scott Westerfeld

My name is tally youngblood and my mind is very ugly.

— Scott Westerfeld

Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain.

— Scott Westerfeld

Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse – bright knives slicing the night into pieces.

— Scott Westerfeld

One of the most common questions writers are asked is “Where do you get your ideas?” But the sad truth is, we don’t know. Ideas can come at any time and from any direction: in the shower, waiting for an elevator, or while bouncing across Wikipedia pages.

— Scott Westerfeld

She wasn’t here to gawk. She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission.

— Scott Westerfeld

However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally’s choice to stay.

— Scott Westerfeld

That’s how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both.

— Scott Westerfeld

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.

— Scott Westerfeld

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.

— Scott Westerfeld

You’d think that in a fight, NOT MOVING would be a bad habit!

— Scott Westerfeld

He makes me feel like that. Like flying.

— Scott Westerfeld

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.

— Scott Westerfeld

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.

— Scott Westerfeld

You look beautiful – David.

— Scott Westerfeld

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

— Scott Westerfeld

The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there’d been way too many people, and everyone was incredibly stupid. And ugly.

— Scott Westerfeld

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.

— Scott Westerfeld
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