Quotes from Scott Westerfeld

We don't have to look like everyone else...and act like everyone else. We've got a choice. We can grow up any way we want...It's about becoming what I want to become, not what some surgical committee thinks I should.

Life was going to be one big party from now on, full of beautiful people. Like Tally Youngblood

Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain. Otherwise, you might as well be living on a reservation, worshipping a bunch of bogus gods.

Makes perfect sense. In a problematic way. But life is problematic, so novels must be too.

She had changed the arc of her own story, merely by typing a couple of thousand words each day for thirty days.

Over his years of helping runaways to find the Smoke, David had encountered wild animals, forest fires, and bio-engineered poisonous plants. But nothing was more dangerous than a city afraid of change.

Ela sempre dizia que seu cérebro não passava de uma máquina que transformava café em efeitos especiais. (Tão Ontem)

Life sucked all right. It sucked hard, because it was random and terrifying and too easily lost. Life was full of death cults and psychopaths, bad timing and bad people. Life was broken...Because you could make one mistake in righteous anger, and lose the person you most loved. But everything that sucked about life also proved that it was priceless, because otherwise all of that wouldn't hurt so bad.

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.

A country with two kings will always falter.

Not just your face was changed by the knife. Your personality— the real you inside— was the price of beauty.

Novelists are evil psychopomps, basically. We treat a few characters as real, but the rest of them are cannon fodder.

But somehow her satisfaction never lasted very long. She always found herself changing, pushing against the limits and ruining things for everyone around her. It's not always my fault, she said softly. Things just get complicated, sometimes.

Hi guys the book Im reading right this moment is called Uglies

I thought when he learned my secret, he would understand the ally I could be. But instead, he doesn't even know who I am.

Maybe that is the price of loving someone: you lose your grasp of where they ended and you began.

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

You should make sure that the quotable lines of dialogue in your book never exceed a hundred and forty characters!" seemed

By now, Tally understood that nothing in the Smoke ever lost its value. Nothing was discarded or given away just because it was old or broken.

that's where the money is in publishing—people who don't read.

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.

Their bodies fit perfectly like this, two continents pulled eons ago but now rejoined.

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

More important, she had someone else now. However unfair it was that her memories of David had been erased, Tally had built a whole new set of memories, and she couldn't just trade them in for the old ones. Zane and she had helped each other become bubbly, had been imprisoned by the cuffs together, and escaped the city together. She couldn't abandon him now, just because he had been robbed of part of his mind