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1 " The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side. "
― Scott Westerfeld
2 " It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing. "
― Scott Westerfeld , Peeps (Peeps, #1)
3 " At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated. "
― Scott Westerfeld , Pretties (Uglies, #2)
4 " Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no, that's not what you want. You'll settle for those things, but you really want a monkey that does your evil bidding. Pullman is a genius just for this. "
― Scott Westerfeld , The World of the Golden Compass: The Otherworldly Ride Continues
5 " I spilled more times than a glass of milk on a roller coaster. "
― Scott Westerfeld , Uglies (Uglies, #1)
6 " And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag. "
― Scott Westerfeld , Leviathan (Leviathan, #1)
7 " I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth. "
― Scott Westerfeld , Extras (Uglies, #4)
8 " Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same. "
9 " Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them. "
10 " Ignorance doesn't lead to salvation, nor does knowledge pave the way to sin. - Cinda Williams Chima "
11 " The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people, and everyone was incredibly stupid. And ugly. "
12 " Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered. "
13 " 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. "
14 " That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become. "
― Scott Westerfeld , Specials (Uglies, #3)
15 " No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us. "
― Scott Westerfeld , Goliath (Leviathan, #3)
16 " You see, freedom has a way of destroying things. "
17 " 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. "
― Scott Westerfeld , The Last Days (Peeps, #2)
18 " 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. "
― Scott Westerfeld , Afterworlds (Afterworlds #1)
19 " What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful. "
20 " Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was. "
― Scott Westerfeld , The Uglies Trilogy (Uglies, #1-3)
