Scott Westerfeld Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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