Quotes from Scott Westerfeld

Maybe Flicker's power made her think differently than most people. She saw the world from so many perspectives, and seeing was half of enlightenment.

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

Aya, that's the barking strangest thing about battle - that it's real

They broke things.

That girl in the painting looks so fierce, so strong. I want her to be the truth of me.

It's just . . . it feels like someone's going to ask me for ID. Like, writer ID." The

Happy endings are popular. Do you not watch movies? Yeah, but that's movies, Darcy groaned. Books are above all that!

the things we write, they aren't always really us.

I'm here to learn. And what you have taught me is to avoid love as long as possible.

The opening chapter was the book's unique selling point, the singular idea that had carried Darcy through last November, and Coleman had just come up with it off the top of his head.

She would find her answers in the words she wrote, in the stories she told, not by asking for permission.

Freedom has a way of destroying things.

How come you forget English when you swear?

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.

Doing what you're supposed to do is always boring.

But I'll do anything in my power to stop them from taking you away." She took a shuddering breath, then let her eyes fall closed. "Promise?" "Anything. As you said in Tokyo, we're meant to be together.

Jen's an impact player, a spoiled brat, a royal pain-in-the-ass, and she rewires me like nothing else.

It's not always about writing more words or drinking more coffee. Sometimes getting to the end of a novel simply takes remembering that the world is more complicated than we know, and then sticking some of those complications into the story.

Do you promise? He demanded again. I can't let you go, Alek. She said softly. You...what?

Fun fact: there are also 3,000 varieties of pears. That's right. Even PEARS are more complicated than you thought!

Me enloquecía que estuviera tan lejos, fuera del alcance de mi doliente piel. Pero también había algo intenso en la incorporeidad, como si la distancia amplificase nuestra conexión.

Don't worry," he kept saying. "The overworld can't hurt you if you stay calm." I wasn't calm at all. But my panic was like a poisonous snake at a zoo, staring at me from the other side of thick glass. Only Yamaraj's touch on my arm kept the glass from shattering. His skin seemed to burn against mine.

Because that's what people need after traumas, apparently - lots of long conversations about the effects of trauma.

It must be horrible to see an ugly face when your surrounded by such beautiful people all the time.