Scott Westerfeld > Quotes

“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.”
― Scott Westerfield

“You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

“Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.”
― Scott Westerfeld, The Uglies Trilogy

“Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.”
― Scott Westerfield, Extras

“When she awoke, the world was on fire.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.”
― Scott Westerfeld, So Yesterday

“You're insane!" she shouted.
"Pretty cool, huh?"
"No!"Tally yelled. "Why didn't you tell me it was broken?"
Shay shrugged. "More fun that way?"
"More fun?" Her heart beating fast,her vision strangely clear. She was full of anger and relief and...joy.
"Well, kind of. But you suck!”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“ I love you all. But it's time to say good-bye, for now.
be careful with the world, or the next time we meet, it might get ugly.
-Tally Youngblood”
― Scott Westerfeld, Specials

“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

“I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood”
― Scott Westerfeld, Specials

“What happens when perfection isn't good enough?”
― Scott Westerfeld, Pretties

“Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“Having a brain hurt so much sometimes.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Specials

“The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun. ”
― Scott Westerfeld

“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.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Pretties

“Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“You are so... 11:59”
― Scott Westerfeld, The Secret Hour

“Her only way home was to betray her friend.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“Haven't you ever known someone rejected by a lover, who, consumed by rage and jealousy, never lets go? They look on from a distance, unseen but boiling inside. The emotion never seems to tire, this hatred mixed with intense obsession, even with a kind of twisted love.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Peeps

“Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos. ”
― Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan

“Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“And over all those sleepy weeks, the dream always ended the same way, with the dragon coming for the princess saying the same words every time....
"Face it, Tally-wa, you're Special.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Pretties

“Which was worse: a friend with brain damage, or one who despised you?”
― Scott westerfeld

“I spilled more times than a glass of milk on a roller coaster.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.”
― Scott Westerfeld, So Yesterday

“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.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Pretties