86 Quotes & Sayings By Scott Westerfeld

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth. Scott Westerfeld

Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them. Scott Westerfeld

She needed Andrew Simpson Smith, it was that simple. And he had spent his life training to help people like her. Gods. "Okay, Andrew. But let's leave today. I'm in a hurry."" Of course. Today." He stroked the place where his slight beard was beginning to grow. "These ruins where your friends are waiting? Where are they?" Tally glances up at the sun, still low enough to indicate the eastern horizon. After a moment's calculation, she pointed off to the northwest, back toward the city and beyond that, the Rusty Ruins. "About a week's walk that way." "A week?"" That means seven days."" Yes, I know the gods' calendar, " he said huffily. "But a whole week?"" Yeah. That's not so far, is it?" The hunters had been tireless on their march the night before. He shook his head, an awed expression on his face. "But that is beyond the edge of the world. Scott Westerfeld

You're insane! " she shouted." Pretty cool, huh?"" No! " Tally yelled. "Why didn't you tell me it was broken?" Shay shrugged. "More fun that way?"" More fun?" Her heart beating fast, her vision strangely clear. She was full of anger and relief and...joy." Well, kind of. But you suck! Scott Westerfeld

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. Scott Westerfeld

I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled. Scott Westerfeld

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. Scott Westerfeld

...I want those perfect eyes and lips, and for everyone to look at me and gasp. And for everyone who sees me to think Who's that? and want to get to know me, and listen to what I say."" I'd rather have something to say. Scott Westerfeld

...humanity is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world. Scott Westerfeld

Now, young lady, I suppose you're here for a work assignment." Work?" Tally said. They both looked down at her puzzled expression, and Shay burst into laughter. Scott Westerfeld

It’s amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing. Scott Westerfeld

The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind. Scott Westerfeld

When she awoke, the world was on fire. Scott Westerfeld

Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to. Scott Westerfeld

With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty. Scott Westerfeld

Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood, " she said. "make me pretty. Scott Westerfeld

Do you love him?” Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. “He makes me feel like that. Like flying.”“ Then, you have to tell him.”“ I told you, I kissed him! ”“ It’s hardly the same. I kissed you, after all. That wasn’t love, Mr. Sharp.”“Aye, and what exactly was it?”“ Curiosity.” Lilit smiled. “And as I said, you’re quite a dashing boy.”“ But I’m pretty sure Alek doesn’t want a dashing boy! ”“ You can’t be sure until you ask.” Deryn shook her head. “You were raised to throw bombs. I wasn’t.”“ Were you raised to wear trousers and be a soldier? . Scott Westerfeld

That was the trick - to keep punching, no matter what. Scott Westerfeld

What if destiny doesn't care? Scott Westerfeld

The universe is math on fire. Scott Westerfeld

First love is amazing and wonderful, but a kind of panic underlies it, a sense of not knowing what you're doing. Scott Westerfeld

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

And I kind of love it that you want to know everything. Scott Westerfeld

...this is life. Right here in this room, with you, is life. Scott Westerfeld

You don't know what it's like, when your best friend disappears. Scott Westerfeld

Looking for a thousand years is worth it, if in the end you find what you need. Scott Westerfeld

More lies, but maybe lies were better than the truth. Scott Westerfeld

But I feel more real when I'm around her. Like I'm not fading. Scott Westerfeld

The best way to know a city is to eat it. Scott Westerfeld

We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls. Scott Westerfeld

Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain– Maddy glanced at Tally–and selfish. It only takes a twist to lock in that part of their personalities. He always thought that some people could think their way out of it. Scott Westerfeld

Some mornings when I wake up, it takes a long time to remember who I am. Like, it takes a while for everything that's happened in last month to download into my brain. It's nice, not knowing. Even if it's just for five minutes. Scott Westerfeld

That's the worst thing they do to you, to any of you. Whatever those brain lesions are all about, the worst damage is done before they even pick up the knife: You're all brainwashed into believing you're ugly. Scott Westerfeld

Sure, zombies can “be a metaphor.” They can represent the oppressed, as in Land of the Dead, or humanity’s feral nature, as in 28 Days. Or racial politics or fear of contagion or even the consumer unconscious (Night of the Living Dead, Resident Evil, Dawn of the Dead). We could play this game all night. But really, zombies are not “supposed to be metaphors.” They’re supposed to be friggin’ zombies. They follow the Zombie Rules: they rise from death to eat the flesh of the living, they shuffle in slow pursuit (or should, anyway), and most important, they multiply exponentially. They bring civilization down, taking all but the most resourceful, lucky and well-armed among us, whom they save for last. They make us the hunted; all of us. That’s the stuff zombies are supposed to do. Yes, they make excellent symbols, and metaphors, and have kick-ass mythopoeic resonance to boot. But their main job is to follow genre conventions, to play with and expand the Zombie Rules, to make us begin to see the world as a place colored by our own zombie contingency plans. . Scott Westerfeld

Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates. Scott Westerfeld

I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people. Scott Westerfeld

The Shrink always warned me that carriers stay wracked with lifelong guilt. It's not an uplifting thing having turned lovers into monsters. We feel bad that we haven't turned into monsters ourselves--survivor's guilt, that's called. And we feel a bit stupid that we didn't notice our own symptoms earlier. I mean, I'd been sort of wondering why the Atkins diet was giving me night vision. But that hadn't seemed like something to worry about.. Scott Westerfeld

The man was allergic to sleep. Scott Westerfeld

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. Scott Westerfeld

As Melissa got closer, the taste of school began to foul her mouth. Scott Westerfeld

You don't look very happy." Tally tried to smile. David had shared his biggest secret with her; she should tell him hers. But she wasn't brave enough to say the words. "It's been a long night. That's all." He smiled back. "Don't worry, it won't last forever. Scott Westerfeld

Assisted him? Dylan made the repairs. I only fell and hit my head, from what I can recall. Yes, I make excellent deadweight. Scott Westerfeld

Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch. Scott Westerfeld

The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. Of course, Tally thought, you’d have to feed your cat only salmon-flavored cat food for a while, to get the pinks right. Scott Westerfeld

All that glitters is not hovery. Scott Westerfeld

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

Once we turn, it’s new pretty, middle pretty, late pretty.” Shay dropped her arms, and her board stopped drifting. “Then dead pretty. Scott Westerfeld

Her only way home was to betray her friend. Scott Westerfeld

Barking hard work, being a boy. Scott Westerfeld

History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep. Scott Westerfeld

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

I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun. Scott Westerfeld

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

A milli- Helen is enough beauty to launch exactly one ship Scott Westerfeld

Weird, even for one of us. Or maybe she's worse."" Worse how?"" Normal. Scott Westerfeld

I'm a girl." When Deryn opened her eyes, the lady boffin was staring at her with no change of expression. "Indeed, " she Scott Westerfeld

Maybe they’re not as mindless as we thought, or so dedicated to turning every last human into one of them. Like Kalyn says, they were just bored, waiting for something better to happen. And that better thing is us. Scott Westerfeld

I love my virginity to the apocalypse. Scott Westerfeld

God, you mean I lost my virginity to the apocalypse?" Morgan sighed again. "The whole thing was really embarrassing; my parents sent me to Brooklyn when they found out." She shrugged. "I thought I’d be safe in a gay bar, okay? What were you doing in there anyway?" Lace looked at me sidelong. "You were where?" I took a sip of beer, swallowed it. "I, uh, hadn’t been in the city..very long. I didn’t know. Scott Westerfeld

I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I've also learned to making big-scale design decisions early. Scott Westerfeld

I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time - phones, music players, etc. - are blobjects. Scott Westerfeld

The difference between being a part-time writer and a full-time writer is like the difference between dating someone and living with them. Some of the romance is gone, but you learn things you'd never know just by dating. Scott Westerfeld