Quotes from Scott Westerfeld

The scent of a faraway place lay on my skin.

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

If you threaten Deryn Sharp again, Volger – in any way at all – I'm done with you.

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

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

Freedom's easy to lose and hard to get back.

My whole life, I always thought that I was the only impostor. That everyone else was certain they were real in some way that I could never understand. But what if they're all just faking too? Maybe none of us know who we really are.

Nate liked money. It was a sleek and clever invention, beautiful in the way it lubricated power and focused people's attention. But it had a clumsy, brutal side, too. Money bludgeoned people without it into silence, shut them away in neighborhoods like this.

Mindy had explained that a lot of things had ghosts, not just people. Animals, machines, even things as vast as a paved-over forest or as humble as the smell of good cooking could leave traces of themselves behind. The world was haunted by the past.

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.

She laughed and broke into a run, racing out to grab handfuls of raindrops from the air, all alone in a world of diamonds.

There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away, all that's left is some story in a history class.

Sometimes I think I'm nothing but what other people have done to me

Wisdom tells me I'm nothing. But love tells me I'm everything.

No one owns the sunset

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.

La naturaleza, al menos, no necesitaba de operaciones para ser bella. Simplemente lo era.

Maybe that was the point of truth-you could erase it all you wanted, and it was there was to be discovered again.

In their infinite wisdom, the Admiralty approved Alek's medal for bravery in the air on the very same day the United States entered the war. The timing seemed suspicious to Deryn, and of course the medal wasn't for anything useful, like shutting down Tesla's weapon to save the Leviathan. Instead Alek was to be decorated for blundering about on the ship's topside during a storm, and for his great skill in falling over and knocking himself silly. That was the Admiralty for you.

Irony is always the best weapon against facism.

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

MOST THINGS DON'T HAPPEN

Without lesions making everyone agreeable, society was left roiling in a constant battle of words, images, and ideas. All around her Tally felt the city seething, all those unfettered minds bouncing their opinions off each other, like something ready to explode.

What a waste, using her talents this way. Like a brain surgeon clubbing seals for a living.