Top 250 Scott Westerfeld Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.”

— Scott Westerfeld

53. “She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. Tally Youngblood was a weed. And, unlike the orchids, she wasn’t even a pretty one.”

— Scott Westerfeld

54. “Two weeks of killer sunburn is worth a lifetime of being gorgeous.”

— Scott Westerfeld

55. “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

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

— Scott Westerfeld

57. “My whole life, I always thought that I was the only impostor. That everyone else was certain they were real in some way that I could never understand. But what if they’re all just faking too? Maybe none of us know who we really are.”

— Scott Westerfeld

58. “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

59. “I spilled more times than a glass of milk on a roller coaster.”

— Scott Westerfeld

60. “She wasn’t here to gawk. She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission.”

— Scott Westerfeld

61. “All that glitters is not hovery.”

— Scott Westerfeld

62. “Sometimes you can’t choose what you love.”

— Scott Westerfeld

63. “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

64. “High school wasn’t a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track.”

— Scott Westerfeld

65. “Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.”

— Scott Westerfeld

66. “The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.”

— Scott Westerfeld

67. “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

68. “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

69. “Let others wage war. You, lucky Austria, shall marry.”

— Scott Westerfeld

70. “I feel like sometimes my best friend is not my best friend but my mortal enemy.”

— Scott Westerfeld

71. “Or maybe when they do the operation- when they grind and stretch your bones to the right shape, peel off your face and rub all your skin away, and stick in plastic cheekbones so you look like everybody else- maybe after going through all that you just aren’t very interesting anymore. -Shay, Uglies.”

— Scott Westerfeld

72. “You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.”

— Scott Westerfeld

73. “It doesn’t take much convincing to make someone believe they’re better than everyone else.”

— Scott Westerfeld

74. “That’s how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both.”

— Scott Westerfeld

75. “I go where the lizards tell me.”

— Scott Westerfeld

76. “A little drama wins more friends than boring.”

— Scott Westerfeld

77. “That was the whole point of being special: You existed to make sure everyone else behaved, but that didn’t mean YOU had to.”

— Scott Westerfeld

78. “And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag.”

— Scott Westerfeld

79. “Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.”

— Scott Westerfeld

80. “Emperors are vain and useless things.”

— Scott Westerfeld

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

— Scott Westerfeld

82. “Turns out if you never lie, there’s always someone mad at you.”

— Scott Westerfeld

83. “You can’t blame a match for a house made of straw, Alek.”

— Scott Westerfeld

84. “It didn’t matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself.”

— Scott Westerfeld

85. “However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally’s choice to stay.”

— Scott Westerfeld

86. “Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.”

— Scott Westerfeld

87. “Maybe kissing is sort of like nature’s coffee. -Jonathan.”

— Scott Westerfeld

88. “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

89. “Sleep is a little slice of death.”

— Scott Westerfeld

90. “But you know what? It’s not my behavior I’m worried about anymore. It’s yours.”

— Scott Westerfeld

91. “Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma.”

— Scott Westerfeld

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

— Scott Westerfeld

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

— Scott Westerfeld

94. “Which was worse: a friend with brain damage, or one who despised you?”

— Scott Westerfeld

95. “The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.”

— Scott Westerfeld

96. “That was the trick- to keep punching, no matter what.”

— Scott Westerfeld

97. “Even bloody and bruised, he had an odd sort of swagger, as if he crash-landed in giant air ships every day.”

— Scott Westerfeld

98. “Tally snorted. “I don’t think it’s exactly boring, Shay.” “Doing what you’re supposed to do is always boring. I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.” “I can,” Tally said quietly. “Never having any.”

— Scott Westerfeld

99. “A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.”

— Scott Westerfeld

100. “Face it, Tally-wa, you’re special.”

— Scott Westerfeld