Scott Westerfeld Quotes

I make it a policy never to appear surprised - Dr Barlow

Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of 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.

She had changed the arc of her own story, merely by typing a couple of thousand words each day for thirty days.

A milli-Helen is enough beauty to launch exactly one ship

We don't have to look like everyone else...and act like everyone else. We've got a choice. We can grow up any way we want...It's about becoming what I want to become, not what some surgical committee...

Yes. What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

Some mornings when I wake up, it takes a long time to remember who I am. Like, it takes a while for everything that's happened in last month to download into my brain. It's nice, not knowing. Even if...

So my foolhardiness has produced the correct strategy, Count?Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Maybe Flicker's power made her think differently than most people. She saw the world from so many perspectives, and seeing was half of enlightenment.

Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry.

She was a soldier, not some girl twisting her skirts at a village dance.

If they were meant to really be together, why had they been born a prince and a commoner? And if they weren’t, why did she feel this way inside?

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.

Being in the city all the time made everything fake, in a way. Like the buildings and bridges held up by hoverstruts, or jumping off a rooftop with a bungee jacket on, nothing was quite real there.

I wonder if she ever wants to trade lives with me, if only for the chance to punch something.

The best way to know a city is to eat it.

Peeps cant turn into anything smaller than what they are. where would the extra mass go

I thought when he learned my secret, he would understand the ally I could be. But instead, he doesn't even know who I am.

He and I have this... personality conflict. Namely, I think he should get a new one.

Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.