Scott Westerfeld Quotes - Page 5

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• I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time - phones, music players, etc. - are blobjects.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Book, Player, Phones

  "An Interview with Scott Westerfeld on Barking Spiders, Steampunk, and All Things Leviathan". Interview with Joe Monti, www.tor.com. October 30, 2009.

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• A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak.

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  Rude, Textbooks, Sitting

  Scott Westerfeld (2006). “Peeps”, p.79, Penguin

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

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  Way, Faults

  Scott Westerfeld, Keith Thompson (2012). “Goliath”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• That was the whole point of being special: You existed to make sure everyone else behaved, but that didn't mean YOU had to.

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  Mean, Special You, Whole

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Specials”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• I go where the lizards tell me.

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  Lizards

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan Trilogy: Leviathan; Behemoth; Goliath”, p.416, Simon and Schuster

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• As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely. (Spoken by Volger, on Deryn)

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  Riding A Bicycle, Bears, Doe

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• She turned to Frizz. "So you understand the problem? You can't let Tally know about Radical Honesty. There's no telling what she'll do if she finds out you could ruin her plans." Frizz's eyebrows rose. "So let me get this straight, Aya-chan. You want me, a person who can't lie, to lie about the fact that I can't lie?" "We need another plan," Hiro said.

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  Honesty, Lying, Eyebrows

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Extras”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 Tally

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  Thinking, Years, Cities

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Specials”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• God, you mean I lost my virginity to the apocalypse?" Morgan sighed again. "The whole thing was really embarrassing; my parents sent me to Brooklyn when they found out." She shrugged. "I thought I’d be safe in a gay bar, okay? What were you doing in there anyway?" Lace looked at me sidelong. "You were where?" I took a sip of beer, swallowed it. "I, uh, hadn’t been in the city...very long. I didn’t know.

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  Mean, Beer, Gay

  Scott Westerfeld (2006). “Peeps”, p.175, Penguin

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

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  Looks, Exit, Problem

  Scott Westerfeld (2008). “Specials”, p.317, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't blame a match for a house made of straw, Alek.

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  House, Blame, Made

  Scott Westerfeld, Keith Thompson (2012). “Goliath”, p.219, Simon and Schuster

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• You and David could both be right. Maybe human beings are programmed … to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad, Tally. Besides, we had a whole city of pretties to choose from, and we chose each other."-Zane

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  Falling In Love, Cities, Helping

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Pretties”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

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• so pRetty i hAd to Eat hiM

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  Scott Westerfeld (2006). “Peeps”, p.140, Penguin

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• 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 orchids, she wasn't even a pretty one.

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  Weed, Selfish, Orchids

  Scott Westerfeld (2015). “Uglies & Pretties: Uglies; Pretties”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• humanity is a cancer on the body of the world

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  Cancer, Humanity, World

  Scott Westerfeld (2009). “Bogus to Bubbly: An Insider's Guide to the World of Uglies”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Real, Real You, Personality

  Scott Westerfeld (2015). “Uglies & Pretties: Uglies; Pretties”, p.392, Simon and Schuster

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• It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home.

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  Home, Leaving, Done

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Uglies”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Everyone ugly was in bed by now.

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  Cutting, Cities, Rivers

  Margaret Peterson Haddix, Obert Skye, Alan Snow, Anne Ursu, Jane Johnson (2006). “Swashbuckling Fantasy: 10 Thrilling Tales of Magical Adventure”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• He turned to face her again, his late-pretty composure crumbling. "But you're..." "Pretty? Think again." She smiled. "I'm Tally Youngbood. My mind is very ugly. And I'm taking your car.

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  Thinking, Car, Mind

  Scott Westerfeld (2013). “Uglies Quartet: Uglies; Pretties; Specials; Extras”, p.533, Simon and Schuster

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• Tally-When you looked around at everyone else how come you didn’t notice they were brain damaged? Az - We didn’t have much to compare our fellow citizens with. Only a few colleagues who seemed different from most people, more engaged, but that was hardly a surprise. History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep. Before the operation there were wars and mass hatred and clear cutting. Whatever these lesions make us, it isn’t a far cry from how humanity was in the rusty era. These days we’re just a bit easier to manage.

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  War, Cutting, Sheep

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• We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls.

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  Barbie Dolls, May, Normal

  Scott Westerfeld (2013). “Uglies Quartet: Uglies; Pretties; Specials; Extras”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Tally sighed, tipping her feet again to follow. "Maybe that's because they have better stuff to do than kid tricks. Maybe partying in town is better than hanging out in a bunch of old ruins." Shay's eyes flashed. "Or maybe when they do the operation-when they grind and stretch your bones to the right shape, peel off your face and rub all your skin away, and stick in plastic cheekbones so you look like everyone else-maybe after going through all that you just aren't very interesting anymore.

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  Party, Kids, Eye

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• Didn't this beat everything? A pretty and an ugly taking a stroll together. The warden came closer, confusion all over his middle-pretty face. Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "Make me pretty.

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  Confusion, Together, Ugly

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Uglies”, p.406, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

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  Lying, Want, Facts

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• However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally's choice to stay.

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  Stupid, Eye, Choices

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Uglies”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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