Scott Westerfeld Quotes

Because that's what people need after traumas, apparently - lots of long conversations about the effects of trauma.

Boys had something else...a sort of swagger about them.

But I wanted to finish your book.

But doesn’t real love work the other way round? Kiralee asked. You start by thinking someone’s fabulous, and by the end of the piece you realize he’s a monster!

Controlling someone by changing their brain is like trying to stop a hovercar by digging a ditch. If they think hard enough, they can fly right over.

Darcy closed her eyes. Their lips met, and she breathed in the scent of the sun-heated tar beneath them and the salt of Imogen’s skin. She felt the rumble of the traffic below traveling up through the...

Deryn had been there every step of the way. We are connected, aren’t we? Aye, she said, still chewing. And for us to meet at all, I had to pretend to be a boy. Fancy that. Barking destiny, Bovril said...

Fate didn't care a squick about what anybody was to do.

He shook with another sob, sinking to one knee and realizing that the survival of that one ship – one girl, really – had been for a moment more important than the war itself, or a city’s millions. The...

I can pick up the city feeds on my antenna. It said they were going to change you all. Turn you into something less dangerous. Are you still...?She gazed at him. What do you think, David?He peered int...

I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too

I swallowed my screams whole. They went down my throat as sharp-cornered and cold as ice cubes.

I wonder why they never come back, Shay said. Just to visit. Tally swallowed. Because we’re so ugly, Skinny, that’s why.

I would have killed him to save the Leviathan. To save you. He put his hands on her shoulders. It was the only thing in my mind, when it came time to choose – that I couldn’t lose you. That’s when I k...

I'm Tally Youngblood. Make me pretty. -Tally Youngblood

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

Is it not good to make society full of beautiful people? —Yang Yuan, quoted in the New York Times

It must be horrible to see an ugly face when your surrounded by such beautiful people all the time . In my opinion , it does happens sometimes .

It’s just . . . it feels like someone’s going to ask me for ID. Like, writer ID. The

Makes perfect sense. In a problematic way. But life is problematic, so novels must be too.