Quotes About Deryn

#1. Did you really think I was too fragile to know what Deryn was?"
"Fragile?" Volger looked about. "I hadn't thought so, but now I find you brooding in a bathroom. This doesn't speak well of your sturdiness.

Scott Westerfeld

#2. Open Secret boasts a nifty plot and, in Coroner Fortin, a fascinating protagonist who will likely be around for a long time. Deryn Collier is a talent to watch,

Giles Blunt

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

Scott Westerfeld

#4. Dr. Barlow, it is, of course, customary to check with the caption before, uh, giving away his ship.
-Deryn Sharp

Scott Westerfeld

#5. Do you love him?"
Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. "He makes me feel like that. Like flying.

Scott Westerfeld

#6. Deryn put her own arms around herself, but it didn't feel the same.
"Barking spiders," she muttered softly,

Scott Westerfeld

#7. Would the hydrogen catch fire? Alek grasped the edge of the window, hardly feeling the broken glass against his palms.
"Deryn" he sobbed. Anything but this.

Scott Westerfeld

#8. I kissed him once," she whispered.
"Well done. What did he do?"
"Um ... " Deryn sighed. "He woke up.

Scott Westerfeld

#9. The Germans were still hunting Alek, trying to finish the job they'd started on his parents. Someone had to be on his side.
And, as Deryn had gradually admitted to herself these last few days, she didn't mind if that someone wound up being her.

Scott Westerfeld

#10. Alek: "Am I that obvious?"
Deryn: "No. Im just dead clever.

Scott Westerfeld

#11. The choice we make at the fork in the road can define our very existence. - Lord Deryn Mercant (Circa 1506)

Nalini Singh

#12. Deryn was quite astounding, really, and entirely worth throwing away an empire for.

Scott Westerfeld

#13. Even bloody and bruised, he had an odd sort of swagger, as if he crash-landed in giant air ships every day.

Scott Westerfeld

#14. If someone chooses to live a certain way, and it doesn't infringe on anyone's freedom, it's their choice to make.

Frank Sonnenberg

#15. Oh, you know Andy. He wouldn't feel sorry for himself if he got his hand cut off. He told me it could have been worse. Andy's favorite line: it can always get worse.

Shandy L. Kurth

#16. But it won't be much of a battle, will it?" Alek asked. "What can an airship do to a pair of ironclads?"
"My guess is, we'll stay absolutely still for an hour. Just so we don't fall into any bad habits.

Scott Westerfeld

#17. Longing for the past keeps us looking back; but hoping in a brighter future keeps us looking up! EL

Evinda Lepins

#18. I don't want truth, Palmer; I want smoke!"
Captain Ahearn: Waiting For Willie Pete

Byron Edgington

#19. [T]he success of democracy depends, in the end, on the reliability of the judgments we citizens make, and hence upon our capacity and determination to weigh arguments and evidence rationally.

Irving M. Copi

#20. Suffering is overated.

Bill Veeck

#21. Do you promise?" He demanded again.
"I can't let you go, Alek." She said softly.
"You...what?

Scott Westerfeld

#22. People talk of life's storms as if they are universal experiences. But they're not. Some people hear thunder while others touch lightning.

Richard Paul Evans

#23. Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture and the people. They've been stolen from the people and now the stolen things are being returned to their owners, but I don't think their owners should be grateful to receive them.

Joseph Brodsky

#24. You'd think that in a fight, NOT MOVING would be a bad habit!

Scott Westerfeld

#25. Reliability engineers often assume that reliability and safety are synonymous, but this assumption is true only in special cases.

Nancy Leveson

#26. The way to win battles, wars and games is by attacking and overrunning the opposing side.

Alex Ferguson

#27. There was a long pause. "Um, I'm afraid I don't know the word in English."
"The word for what?"
"I just said I don't *know* it!

Scott Westerfeld

#28. I just got in music because it was a hobby. I got into clubs for free, got to drink for free and left with the hottest girl from the night. I never dreamed it would be for me to go on this kind of ride at all.

Shaggy

#29. My dear Mr. Bennet," replied his wife, "how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.

Jane Austen

#30. How one suffered for one's children - all their upsets a hurt; all their joys a triumph. 'And

Deryn Lake

#31. There's so many great, fantastic compliments I need to give that girl. Three words isn't enough.

Sam Claflin

#32. I'm perfectly discriminating,' he said with a devilish smile.
'How's that? No blondes after Labour Day?'
'I said I was discriminating, not an imbecile.

Ally Blake

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

Scott Westerfeld

#34. Don't. Shoot. The air is full of hydrogen!

Scott Westerfeld