Scott Westerfeld Quotes

I knew what she was asking, of course. I'd been asking it myself a moment before. But I wasn't sure how you went from dreams to reality without the magic leaking out - or becoming too wild and powerfu...

Volger looked out across the glacier, his hands deep in his pockets. May I be frank?Alek laughed. Feel free to put aside your usual tact.I shall, Volger said. When your father decided to marry Sophie,...

And even though her journal was just random sentences, she did spin stories in my head. The sound of her voice made dreams happen.

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.

Are you saying that your fat-ass cat has turned me into a vampire? Um, maybe?

Sure, zombies can be a metaphor. They can represent the oppressed, as in Land of the Dead, or humanity’s feral nature, as in 28 Days. Or racial politics or fear of contagion or even the consumer uncon...

There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away, all that's left is some story in a history class.

Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.

Sprinkled across the black waters below were at least a hundred small boats set out to greet the , their navigation lights like shifting stars. Among them loomed a glittering cruise liner, her fog hor...

Sometimes you can’t choose what you love.

You look beautiful - David

It's just the way things are. she shrugged. It's no one's fault.Or everyone's.

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 orchid...

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

I stayed against the back wall, as far away as I could get. Not just to stay away from the Plague Lady but to be farther away from the weird old dolls that lined the shelves of her office. Real-lookin...

Listen, you bubblehead-up-until-five-minutes-ago...

But we lost so much in the Prettytime - all the foundations were gone. So we're stuck making it up as we go along! Tally laughed. So what else is new, Frizz? Life doesn't come with an instruction manu...

Nature can blow me.

You're infamous, Tally. Everyone's terrified of you. The new system may have made the other cities nervous, but they seem to think my little gang of psychotic sixteen-year-olds is worse - Cable to Tal...

Nate liked money. It was a sleek and clever invention, beautiful in the way it lubricated power and focused people's attention. But it had a clumsy, brutal side, too. Money bludgeoned people without i...