Quotes from Scott Westerfeld

Even bloody and bruised, he had an odd sort of swagger, as if he crash-landed in giant air ships every day.

I'm not against thinking; I'm only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed.

The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.

humanity is a cancer on the body of the world

Emperors are vain and useless things.

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

He makes me feel like that. Like flying.

Doing what you're supposed to do is always boring. I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.

You can't blame a match for a house made of straw

She smiled, turning toward Alek. You don't know what a friend you have in Dylan.

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

But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.

There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you're-in-trouble smile.

Didn't this beat everything? A pretty and an ugly taking a stroll together. The warden came closer, confusion all over his middle-pretty face. Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. I'm Tally Youngblood, she said. Make me pretty.

My name is tally youngblood and my mind is very ugly

You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.

People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.

Alek said, Do you think I'm being a fool? I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.

Miss Rogers waved a hand. But Mr. Hearst just wants a dramatic story. If the rebels destroy us, he'll get no story at all! Aye, but has anyone explained that to the barking rebels? These are civilized rebels, young man. They have movie deals ! That's no guarantee of sanity!

Dying is one of those things that can't be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.

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.

I love my virginity to the apocalypse.

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

You'd think that in a fight, NOT MOVING would be a bad habit!