Scott Westerfeld Quotes

Aya, that's the barking strangest thing about battle - that it's real

Beauty is that Medusa’s head Which men go armed to seek and sever. It is most deadly when most dead. And dead will stare and sting forever. —Archibald MacLeish, Beauty

About Author

Scott David Westerfeld (born May 5, 1963) is an American writer of young adult fiction, best known as the author of the Uglies and the Leviathan series.

The beauty of the world…has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.—Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (part 3, Pretties)

The beauty of the world . . . has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. —Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

She would find her answers in the words she wrote, in the stories she told, not by asking for permission.

Deryn was quite astounding, really, and entirely worth throwing away an empire for.

You’re still yourself on the inside, Shay. But when you’re pretty, people pay more attention. Not everyone thinks that way.

They broke things.

First love is amazing and wonderful, but a kind of panic underlies it, a sense of not knowing what you're doing.

Freedom has a way of destroying things.

Frighteningly Beautiful, Dangerously Strong, Breathtakingly Fast.Face it Tally-wa you're special...

That girl in the painting looks so fierce, so strong. I want her to be the truth of me.

Let me get this stright, Aya-Chan. You want me, a person who can't lie, to lie about the fact that I can't lie? -Frizz mizuno

There was something magic in their large perfect eyes, something that made you pay attention

That was one problem with dramatic exits: Sometimes they wound up making you look like a bubblehead.

Your first novel is like your first relationship. You won't really understand the decisions you make until years later...And you'll probably screw up the ending...First love is amazing and wonderful,...

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

What a waste, using her talents this way. Like a brain surgeon clubbing seals for a living.

What happens when perfection isn't good enough?

You should make sure that the quotable lines of dialogue in your book never exceed a hundred and forty characters! seemed