Home > Work > Uglies (Uglies, #1)

Uglies (Uglies, #1) QUOTES

Uglies (Uglies, #1) QUOTES

1 " I spilled more times than a glass of milk on a roller coaster. "

― Scott Westerfeld , Uglies (Uglies, #1)

2 " Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same. "

― Scott Westerfeld , Uglies (Uglies, #1)

3 " 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. "

― Scott Westerfeld , Uglies (Uglies, #1)

4 " What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful. "

― Scott Westerfeld , Uglies (Uglies, #1)

5 " 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. "

― Scott Westerfeld , Uglies (Uglies, #1)

6 " The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind. "

― Scott Westerfeld , Uglies (Uglies, #1)

7 " When she awoke, the world was on fire. "

― Scott Westerfeld , Uglies (Uglies, #1)

8 " Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to. "

― Scott Westerfeld , Uglies (Uglies, #1)

9 " We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls. "

― Scott Westerfeld , Uglies (Uglies, #1)

10 " 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. "

― Scott Westerfeld , Uglies (Uglies, #1)

11 " 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. "

― Scott Westerfeld , Uglies (Uglies, #1)

12 " 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. "

― Scott Westerfeld , Uglies (Uglies, #1)

13 " Once we turn, it’s new pretty, middle pretty, late pretty.” Shay dropped her arms, and her board stopped drifting. “Then dead pretty. "

― Scott Westerfeld , Uglies (Uglies, #1)

14 " Her only way home was to betray her friend. "

― Scott Westerfeld , Uglies (Uglies, #1)

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

― Scott Westerfeld , Uglies (Uglies, #1)

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

― Scott Westerfeld , Uglies (Uglies, #1)

17 " There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. "

― Scott Westerfeld , Uglies (Uglies, #1)

18 " Beauty is that Medusa’s head Which men go armed to seek and sever. It is most deadly when most dead. And dead will stare and sting forever. —Archibald MacLeish, “Beauty "

― Scott Westerfeld , Uglies (Uglies, #1)

19 " Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty. "

― Scott Westerfeld , Uglies (Uglies, #1)

20 " The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. "

― Scott Westerfeld , Uglies (Uglies, #1)