Scott Westerfeld Quotes - Page 2

And the worst thing was, there were no mirrors out there in the wild, so the princess was left wondering whether she in fact was still beautiful... or if the fall had changed the story completely.

You look beautiful - David

...I want those perfect eyes and lips, and for everyone to look at me and gasp. And for everyone who sees me to think Who's that? and want to get to know me, and listen to what I say."
"I'd rather have something to say.

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.

Una franja en la que se mezclaban el naranja y el amarillo prendía fuego al cielo,
espléndida e inesperada, tan espectacular como los fuegos artificiales, aunque
cambiaba a un ritmo majestuoso y apenas perceptible. Tally estaba descubriendo que
así era la naturaleza. Peligrosa o bella. O ambas cosas a la vez.

That's the worst thing they do to you, to any of you. Whatever those brain lesions are all about, the worst damage is done before they even pick up the knife: You're all brainwashed into believing you're ugly.

It’s amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.

...humanity is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world.

You are so... 11:59

With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.

Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.

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

Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?"

"I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.

He thinks Goliath can end the war," Alek managed at last. "The man wants peace!"

"As do we all," Count Volger said. "But there are many ways to end a war. Some are more peaceful than others.

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.

No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.

You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.

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.

You don't know what it's like, when your best friend disappears.

Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.