Pretties Scott Westerfeld Quotes

#1. Bubbly is bogus.

Scott Westerfeld

#2. Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any god there.

Nikita Khrushchev

#3. 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

#4. Now we can come fearlessly right into God's presence, assured of his glad welcome when we come with Christ and trust in him.

Anonymous

#5. This man was pure danger, and I'd never sampled anything but safety.

Pepper Winters

#6. A print book is really a kind of tree zombie.

Scott Sigler

#7. If I start working on something, I get a little too driven.

Isaac Brock

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

Scott Westerfeld

#9. 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

#10. I'm beginning to think a dictionary would have been a far more advantageous birthday gift for you."
"More advantageous than being eaten alive by a giant, carnivorous bunny? Yes, most things fall in that category, I think.

William Ritter

#11. I kicked a boy in the shins in second grade for making fun of my father.

Stephanie McMahon

#12. You know, you can always pick the lit students," he continued, grinning. "Is that so? How?" "They're the ones who walk around wearing berets and that I-know-something-you-don't expression.

Alexandra Adornetto

#13. It's always night, or we wouldn't need light.

Thelonious Monk

#14. Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew.

Paul Brunton

#15. Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much.

Russell Kirk

#16. The reason that stepmothers are often the bad guy in fairy tales is because people died in childbirth, all the time, so fathers remarried and there would be a struggle between the children and the new wife, in terms of who would inherit what.

Chris Weitz

#17. First! Does this need to be said? Second! Does this need to be said by me? And third! Does this need to be said by me right now?

Tahereh Mafi

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

Scott Westerfeld