Pretties By Scott Westerfeld Quotes

#1. 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.

Scott Westerfeld

#2. What do you mean Taurus? he frowns. I'm not a Taurus.

You were born on the cusp, I remind him. Jason merely shrugs.

Shows what you know, Scotty, I was born in Ohio.

I can take him anywhere but out.

Steve Kluger

#3. Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all our service men and women past and present. You are not forgotten!

Courteney Cox

#4. Even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked.

Neil Gaiman

#5. 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

Scott Westerfeld

#6. How is San Francisco, Alex? Lovely city. Will you leave your heart there? Do you think it's a good place to die?

James Patterson

#7. There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you're-in-trouble smile.

Scott Westerfeld

#8. Ring sense is an art, a gift from God that flows out of a fighter like a great painting flows out of an artist, or a great book flows out of an author.

Ray Arcel

#9. I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.

H.P. Lovecraft

#10. Nothing is born, nothing dies.

Antoine Lavoisier

#11. What happens when perfection isn't good enough?

Scott Westerfeld

#12. I prefer to write and draw in the privacy of my home and with total freedom and then take it to the lion's den.

Frank Miller

#13. For the price of a couple of Happy Meals, you can buy a digital textbook and stop your child from having to carry around a six-pound book.

Osman Rashid

#14. PATTY: Hannah, what happened to me was awful, and it happened a long time ago, but I try not to dwell on it. It's with me, is who I am, but I won't allow it to shape me.

Sam Crescent

#15. Bubbly is bogus.

Scott Westerfeld

#16. It's a pretty frantic world that we live in.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#17. 'There are enough people out there that will be more than willing to knock you down. There's no reason for you to do it to yourself.'

T.J. Klune

#18. I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.

Tea Obreht

#19. But I've always been hard to cast, I've never been an ingenue, I've never been the romantic lead. I'm an actor; give me the script and I do what I do and hope it's good.

Edie Falco

#20. With this in mind, for some twenty years I have set myself as my particular task the experimental investigation of the connexion between change in the structure and change in the spectra of chemical atoms.

Johannes Stark