Top 224 Quotes & Sayings by Scott Westerfeld - Page 4

Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority?

Okay... That's still blind-making.

If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.

I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic grab-the-reader technique.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Hard work's a good distraction.

It's just programming" "No. It's because I love him

Ah. So he's forgotten the most important rule of warfare. Which is... That nothing ever goes to plan.

Her only way home was to betray her friend.

Come on, it's almost midnight. Let's go watch them cut the cake.

He squeezed her hand. "Then I'll come get you, wherever you are when it happens. We'll be okay." "But what about everybody else?" He stared out across the river, nodding slowly. "My guess is, everybody else is in big trouble.

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

He makes me feel like that. Like flying.

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

She carried a knife inside of herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her thoughts strayed from the splendor of the wild.

You look beautiful - David

Emperors are vain and useless things.

And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?

Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.

I feel like sometimes my best friend is not my best friend but my mortal enemy

But it's always taking a risk, when you ... kiss someone new.

I make it a policy never to appear surprised" - Dr Barlow

You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed, with all the cities coming awake at last. Together, you're more than enough to change the world without us. So from now on, David and I are here to stand in your way. You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.

Alek was right behind her now, his body pressing close as he adjusted her sword arm. She hadn't realized this fencing business would be so touchy. He grasped her waist, sending a crackle across her skin. If Alek moved his hands any higher, he might notice what was hidden beneath her careful tailoring. “Always keep sideways to your opponent,” he said, gently turning her. “That way, your chest presents the smallest possible target.” “Aye, the smallest possible target,” Deryn sighed. Her secret was safe, it seemed.

What about a hoverboard?" "It's waiting on the roof, of course." Dr. Cable snorted. "What is it about you miscreants and those things?

Nature was tough, it could be dangerous, but unlike Dr. Cable or shay, or peris-unlike people in general-it made sense. The problems it threw at you could be solved rationally.

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.

The man was allergic to sleep.

But they're already singing our praises!" "They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything.

I know what it’s like to be manipulated, Aya-la. And I know what it’s like to be in danger. While your city was building you mansions to live in, my friends and I have been protecting this planet. We’ve spilled more blood than you have flowing in your veins. So don’t try to make me feel guilty! -Tally Youngblood, Extras

Barking hard work, being a boy.

Tally wondered if you could talk somebody out of their brain damage.

it's not called the Rusty Ruins because some guy called Rusty found them.

Do you love him?" Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. "He makes me feel like that. Like flying.

Let others wage war. You, lucky Austria, shall marry.

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.

Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city." "There are no limits in war," Volger said, still staring out the window.

Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse - bright knives slicing the night into pieces.

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.

Oh, this beast? It's...perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'." "Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled. "And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar.

Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they're never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they're about as much good as friends.

But you know what? It's not my behavior I'm worried about anymore. It's yours.

Lilt pulled away. "I saw what he was doing, so I cleared a path for him. I helped him do it..." She shook her head, tears tracking the dust off her face, and turned to stare at the fallen tower. "Have we all gone mad to want this?

That letter was your whole future, you daft prince." "It was my past. I lost that the night my parents died. But I found you, Deryn. Maybe I wasn't meant to end the war, but I was meant to find you. I know that. You've saved me from having any reason to keep going." "We save each other. That's how it works.