Top 250 Scott Westerfeld Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”

— Scott Westerfeld

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2. “Life doesn’t come with an instruction manual.”

— Scott Westerfeld

3. “Hard work’s a good distraction.”

— Scott Westerfeld

4. “Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing nothing.”

— Scott Westerfeld

5. “Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.”

— Scott Westerfeld

6. “My name is tally youngblood and my mind is very ugly.”

— Scott Westerfeld

7. “I don’t want to hurt you but I will if I have too – Tally Youngblood.”

— Scott Westerfeld

8. “In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly.”

— Scott Westerfeld

9. “Sometimes the thoughts in my head get so bored they go out for a stroll through my mouth. This is rarely a good thing.”

— Scott Westerfeld

10. “Freedom’s easy to lose and hard to get back.”

— Scott Westerfeld

11. “He makes me feel like that. Like flying.”

— Scott Westerfeld

12. “Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.”

— Scott Westerfeld

13. “Never bored on a hoverboard.”

— Scott Westerfeld

14. “We don’t always get to choose what we love.”

— Scott Westerfeld

15. “I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.”

— Scott Westerfeld

16. “The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.”

— Scott Westerfeld

17. “The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit.”

— Scott Westerfeld

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

— Scott Westerfeld

19. “When she awoke, the world was on fire.”

— Scott Westerfeld

20. “Irony is always the best weapon against fascism.”

— Scott Westerfeld

21. “Sooner or later usually means too late.”

— Scott Westerfeld

22. “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

23. “Having a brain hurt so much sometimes.”

— Scott Westerfeld

24. “Your personality – the real you inside – was the price of beauty.”

— Scott Westerfeld

25. “You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.”

— Scott Westerfeld

26. “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

27. “It’s not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I’ve done much longer trips on my own. It’s leaving home.”

— Scott Westerfeld

28. “Maybe that was the price of loving someone: You lost your grasp of where they ended and you began.”

— Scott Westerfeld

29. “Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Everyone ugly was in bed by now.”

— Scott Westerfeld

30. “What happens when perfection isn’t good enough?”

— Scott Westerfeld

31. “The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.”

— Scott Westerfeld

32. “At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.”

— Scott Westerfeld

33. “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.”

— Scott Westerfeld

34. “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

35. “I love my virginity to the apocalypse.”

— Scott Westerfeld

36. “Their reasons don’t mean anything unless I have a choice.”

— Scott Westerfeld

37. “Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help.”

— Scott Westerfeld

38. “Perhaps it’s worth saying again: One reader’s discomfort should never stand in the way of another reader’s survival.”

— Scott Westerfeld

39. “I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.”

— Scott Westerfeld

40. “As a bio major, I figured “free will” meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a way that felt like choosing but was actually the dance of little gears – neurons and hormones bubbling up into decisions like clockwork. You don’t use your body; it uses you.”

— Scott Westerfeld

41. “The best way to know a city is to eat it.”

— Scott Westerfeld

42. “Didn’t any of these brainless wonders ever notice that TV shows were called programs? the same word that meant a bunch of numbers stuck into a computer to make it dance for its masters?”

— Scott Westerfeld

43. “Nature can blow me.”

— Scott Westerfeld

44. “No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.”

— Scott Westerfeld

45. “What if destiny doesn’t care?”

— Scott Westerfeld

46. “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

47. “Barking hard work, being a boy.”

— Scott Westerfeld

48. “History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.”

— Scott Westerfeld

49. “Her only way home was to betray her friend.”

— Scott Westerfeld

50. “It’s amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.”

— Scott Westerfeld