Scott Westerfeld Quotes

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I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood

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Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma.

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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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Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they're never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they're about as much good as friends.

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What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.

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Two weeks of killer sunburn is worth a lifetime of being gorgeous

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Maybe that was the price of loving someone: You lost your grasp of where they ended and you began.

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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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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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And the worst thing was, there were no mirrors out there in the wild, so the princess was left wondering whether she in fact was still beautiful... or if the fall had changed the story completely.

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

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

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She wasn't here to gawk. She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission.

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The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.

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We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in...

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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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Tally wondered if you could talk somebody out of their brain damage.

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You'd best ask the lady boffin, sir, Newkirk said. Midshipmen aren't allowed to have opinions.

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She couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no doubt few and far between. (...), that made stories a valuable commodity, and it probably wasn't very often that a stranger dropped in from the sky.

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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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That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both.

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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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Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.

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Ah. So he's forgotten the most important rule of warfare. Which is... That nothing ever goes to plan.

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