Top 100 Scott Westerfeld Quotes
#2. Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.
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#5. Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse - bright knives slicing the night into pieces.
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#6. History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.
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#8. 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.
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#10. When I finish a first draft, I often look back at first chapters I wrote and laugh at them. They're like pictures of yourself in middle school. You're embarrassed to see them.
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#11. And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?
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#12. Without lesions making everyone agreeable, society was left roiling in a constant battle of words, images, and ideas. All around her Tally felt the city seething, all those unfettered minds bouncing their opinions off each other, like something ready to explode.
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#13. My compliments," Alek said slowly and evenly. "Your contempt was most convincing."
"I am your servant.
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#14. You'd best ask the lady boffin, sir," Newkirk said. "Midshipmen aren't allowed to have opinions.
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#15. We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in ...
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#16. Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.
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#17. The difference between being a part-time writer and a full-time writer is like the difference between dating someone and living with them. Some of the romance is gone, but you learn things you'd never know just by dating.
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#18. I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.
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#20. Make a list of all the varieties of aliens you can come up with. (And if it's less than 3,000, then THE PEARS ARE LAUGHING AT YOU, MY FRIEND.) -Scott Westerfeld from NaNoWriMo Pep Talk.
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#21. 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 thinks I should.
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#22. 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 powerful.
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#23. Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.
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#24. I found a great book called 'Slang Through the Ages' by Jonathon Green. It's basically a thesaurus of historical slang, and had lots of great old uses.
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#26. She was nothing in particular. But at least she had a purpose.
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#27. Yeah, you should have seen your face. Actually, I should have seen your face. Stupid sneak suits.
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#28. 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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#30. Fun fact: there are also 3,000 varieties of pears. That's right. Even PEARS are more complicated than you thought!
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#31. Alek: "Am I that obvious?"
Deryn: "No. Im just dead clever.
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#33. Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.
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#34. 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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#39. Maybe the natural world wasn't so jaw-droppingly horrible, appaling, nasty, vile. Sometimes nature could be quite sweet, really, as delicate as a confused and horny butterfly.
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#41. Fifteen!" Dess's distant cry reached him. "Where the hell are you, Rex? Ten. You're-an-idiot-nine, get-back-here-eight, you-dimwit-seven ...
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#42. Looking for a thousand years is worth it, if in the end you find what you need.
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#43. Didn't any of these brainless wonders ever notice that TV shows were called programs? the same word that meant a bunch of numbers stuck into a computer to make it dance for its masters?
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#45. High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track.
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#46. Assisted him? Dylan made the repairs. I only fell and hit my head, from what I can recall. Yes, I make excellent deadweight.
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#47. Real life doesn't have many happy endings. Why shouldn't books make up the difference?
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#49. It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.
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#50. Maybe they're not as mindless as we thought, or so dedicated to turning every last human into one of them. Like Kalyn says, they were just bored, waiting for something better to happen.
And that better thing is us.
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#52. The night went on like this, a mix of serious talk, utter bullshit, self-promotion, and slumber-party giddiness.
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#53. Tally wondered if you could talk somebody out of their brain damage.
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#54. And it was pretty clear that no prince was showing up, or at least that he was really late.
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#56. Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.
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#57. The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.
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#59. Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry.
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#60. I love you all. But it's time to say good-bye, for now.
be careful with the world, or the next time we meet, it might get ugly.
-Tally Youngblood
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#64. 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.
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#66. I think any List of Best X creates arguments and people saying 'You listed that rubbish?' That's what lists like this are for.
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#67. He chuckled, shaking his head. "Man, you hunters. I break a pencil and there's hell to pay."
"I can see how that's deeply unfair, Chip. Especially if that pencil should try to kill you with it teeth and claws, or launch its brood of a thousand deadly paper clips against you.
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#68. Tally snorted. "I don't think it's exactly boring, Shay." "Doing what you're supposed to do is always boring. I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have fun." "I can," Tally said quietly. "Never having any.
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#69. Deryn put her own arms around herself, but it didn't feel the same.
"Barking spiders," she muttered softly,
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#70. 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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#71. 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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#72. This is the power of the Goliath, that no one on earth, Clanker or Darwinist, can escape. So we all must learn to share the globe, or perish together!
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#73. 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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#75. Oh, this beast? It's ... perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'."
"Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled.
"And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar.
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#77. I have no problem with commenters stating strong opinions, except for my usual annoyance with people who don't agree with me.
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#78. 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 manual. So don't tell me that humanity being logic-missing is my fault.
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#79. Gravity was something you could beat; all it took was hydrogen, hot air, or even a bit of rope. But being a girl was a miserable, never-ending struggle.
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#81. With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future ... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.
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#82. No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.
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#85. Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty.
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#87. I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.
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#89. And over all those sleepy weeks, the dream always ended the same way, with the dragon coming for the princess saying the same words every time ...
Face it, Tally-wa, you're Special.
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#90. Maybe when you look at your face 50 times its really not that interesting anymore
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#91. Once we turn, it's new pretty, middle pretty, late pretty." Shay dropped her arms, and her board stopped drifting. "Then dead pretty.
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#92. You don't look very happy."
Tally tried to smile. David had shared his biggest secret with her; she should tell him hers. But she wasn't brave enough to say the words. "It's been a long night. That's all."
He smiled back. "Don't worry, it won't last forever.
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#93. So, there was this beautiful princess.
She was locked in a high tower( ... )She was stuck up there( ... )So the only thing was to jump.
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#94. Haven't you ever known someone rejected by a lover, who, consumed by rage and jealousy, never lets go? They look on from a distance, unseen but boiling inside. The emotion never seems to tire, this hatred mixed with intense obsession, even with a kind of twisted love.
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#95. Lilt pulled away. "I saw what he was doing, so I cleared a path for him. I helped him do it ... " She shook her head, tears tracking the dust off her face, and turned to stare at the fallen tower. "Have we all gone mad to want this?
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#96. Even bloody and bruised, he had an odd sort of swagger, as if he crash-landed in giant air ships every day.
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#97. As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely.
(Spoken by Volger, on Deryn)
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#98. First love is amazing and wonderful, but a kind of panic underlies it, a sense of not knowing what you're doing.
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#99. Instead, she rose a little onto her toes and they kissed again.
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#100. Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look," she said. "No," David said. "It changes the way you think.
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