Quotes from Scott Westerfeld

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

Once there was a girl named Riley, the story began. Her heart was a secret garden, its stone walls cracked and weathered. And it was hungry. p160

peeps cant turn into anything smaller than what they are. where would the extra mass go

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!

Alek coughed politely, If I promise to avoid funny business, could you perhaps remove this knife from my throat?

Her parents didn't understand that braille meant big clunky books that marked you as different, while audiobooks live invisibly on your phone and text-to-speech gave you the whole damn internet.

but loving had left her skinless.

From now on, no one rewires my mind but me.

For some of us, politics means fighting for our right to exist

The universe is math on fire.

Blurbs don't work anymore!" was another. "You should make sure that the quotable lines of dialogue in your book never exceed a hundred and forty characters!" seemed at best debatable.

Growing up like rewriting is simply admitting how clueless you were not so long ago.

She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of the other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable.

By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower. —Rabindranath Tagore, "Stray Birds

Your public-spiritedness is appreciated, I assure you.

If they were meant to really be together, why had they been born a prince and a commoner? And if they weren't, why did she feel this way inside?

And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?

For me, writing's the only thing that's always real. I've never regretted a day I wrote a good scene, whatever else I screwed up that day. That's what's fucking real.

If a meteor falls in the forest and no one realizes it, does it end the war?

Adulation is like rain. You can only get so wet.

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

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

Controlling someone by changing their brain is like trying to stop a hovercar by digging a ditch. If they think hard enough, they can fly right over.

Nice concept. But is it a trilogy or a tweet? I can't tell any more.