Scott Westerfeld Quotes

God, you mean I lost my virginity to the apocalypse?"Morgan sighed again. "The whole thing was really embarrassing; my parents sent me to Brooklyn when they found out." She shrugged. "I thought I’d be safe in a gay bar, okay? What were you doing in there anyway?"Lace looked at me sidelong. "You were where?"I took a sip of beer, swallowed it. "I, uh, hadn’t been in the city...very long. I didn’t know.
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I love my virginity to the apocalypse.
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Maybe they’re not as mindless as we thought, or so dedicated to turning every last human into one of them. Like Kalyn says, they were just bored, waiting for something better to happen.And that better thing is us.
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I'm a girl."When Deryn opened her eyes, the lady boffin was staring at her with no change of expression. "Indeed," she
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Weird, even for one of us. Or maybe she's worse.""Worse how?""Normal.
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A milli-Helen is enough beauty to launch exactly one ship
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The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.
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I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.
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Deryn put her own arms around herself, but it didn't feel the same."Barking spiders," she muttered softly,
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History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.
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Barking hard work, being a boy.
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Her only way home was to betray her friend.
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Once we turn, it’s new pretty, middle pretty, late pretty.” Shay dropped her arms, and her board stopped drifting. “Then dead pretty.
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Tally wondered if you could talk somebody out of their brain damage.
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All that glitters is not hovery.
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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.
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Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.
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Assisted him? Dylan made the repairs. I only fell and hit my head, from what I can recall. Yes, I make excellent deadweight.
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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.
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As Melissa got closer, the taste of school began to foul her mouth.
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She couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no doubt few and far between. (...), that made stories a valuable commodity, and it probably wasn't very often that a stranger dropped in from the sky.
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The man was allergic to sleep.
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The Shrink always warned me that carriers stay wracked with lifelong guilt. It's not an uplifting thing having turned lovers into monsters. We feel bad that we haven't turned into monsters ourselves--survivor's guilt, that's called. And we feel a bit stupid that we didn't notice our own symptoms earlier. I mean, I'd been sort of wondering why the Atkins diet was giving me night vision. But that hadn't seemed like something to worry about...
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I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people.
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Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.
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Sure, zombies can “be a metaphor.” They can represent the oppressed, as in Land of the Dead, or humanity’s feral nature, as in 28 Days. Or racial politics or fear of contagion or even the consumer unconscious (Night of the Living Dead, Resident Evil, Dawn of the Dead). We could play this game all night.But really, zombies are not “supposed to be metaphors.” They’re supposed to be friggin’ zombies. They follow the Zombie Rules: they rise from death to eat the flesh of the living, they shuffle in slow pursuit (or should, anyway), and most important, they multiply exponentially. They bring civilization down, taking all but the most resourceful, lucky and well-armed among us, whom they save for last. They make us the hunted; all of us.That’s the stuff zombies are supposed to do. Yes, they make excellent symbols, and metaphors, and have kick-ass mythopoeic resonance to boot. But their main job is to follow genre conventions, to play with and expand the Zombie Rules, to make us begin to see the world as a place colored by our own zombie contingency plans.
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That's the worst thing they do to you, to any of you. Whatever those brain lesions are all about, the worst damage is done before they even pick up the knife: You're all brainwashed into believing you're ugly.
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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.
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We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls.
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Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain—Maddy glanced at Tally—and selfish. It only takes a twist to lock in that part of their personalities. He always thought that some people could think their way out of it.
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The best way to know a city is to eat it.
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You don't know what it's like, when your best friend disappears.
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Looking for a thousand years is worth it, if in the end you find what you need.
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More lies, but maybe lies were better than the truth.
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But I feel more real when I'm around her. Like I'm not fading.
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...this is life. Right here in this room, with you, is life.
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And I kind of love it that you want to know everything.
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Maybe that was the price of loving someone: you lost your grasp of where they ended and you began.
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First love is amazing and wonderful, but a kind of panic underlies it, a sense of not knowing what you're doing.
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The universe is math on fire.
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What if destiny doesn't care?
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That was the trick - to keep punching, no matter what.
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Do you love him?”Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. “He makes me feel like that. Like flying.”“Then, you have to tell him.”“I told you, I kissed him!”“It’s hardly the same. I kissed you, after all. That wasn’t love, Mr. Sharp.”“Aye, and what exactly was it?”“Curiosity.” Lilit smiled. “And as I said, you’re quite a dashing boy.”“But I’m pretty sure Alek doesn’t want a dashing boy!”“You can’t be sure until you ask.”Deryn shook her head. “You were raised to throw bombs. I wasn’t.”“Were you raised to wear trousers and be a soldier?
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Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.
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With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.
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Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.
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When she awoke, the world was on fire.
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The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.
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It’s amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.
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Now,young lady,I suppose you're here for a work assignment."Work?" Tally said.They both looked down at her puzzled expression, and Shay burst into laughter.
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...humanity is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world.
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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.
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...I want those perfect eyes and lips, and for everyone to look at me and gasp. And for everyone who sees me to think Who's that? and want to get to know me, and listen to what I say.""I'd rather have something to say.
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You look beautiful - David
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And the worst thing was, there were no mirrors out there in the wild, so the princess was left wondering whether she in fact was still beautiful... or if the fall had changed the story completely.
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Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.
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What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.
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What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.
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I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.
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You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.
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