Top 250 Scott Westerfeld Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Even bloody and bruised, he had an odd sort of swagger, as if he crash-landed in giant air ships every day.”

— Scott Westerfeld

102. “Hiding from the truth was worse than being lied to.”

— Scott Westerfeld

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

— Scott Westerfeld

104. “You’d think that in a fight, NOT MOVING would be a bad habit!”

— Scott Westerfeld

105. “I’m not against thinking; I’m only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed.”

— Scott Westerfeld

106. “Gravity was something you could beat; all it took was hydrogen, hot air, or even a bit of rope. But being a girl was a miserable, never-ending struggle.”

— Scott Westerfeld

107. “When the term machine gun enters common parlance, the word machine becomes much more sinister.”

— Scott Westerfeld

108. “I’ve learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I’ve also learned to making big-scale design decisions early.”

— Scott Westerfeld

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

— Scott Westerfeld

110. “Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.”

— Scott Westerfeld

111. “Controlling someone by changing their brain is like trying to stop a hovercar by digging a ditch. If they think hard enough, they can fly right over.”

— Scott Westerfeld

112. “People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that’s the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.”

— Scott Westerfeld

113. “The universe is math on fire.”

— Scott Westerfeld

114. “Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry.”

— Scott Westerfeld

115. “That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.”

— Scott Westerfeld

116. “The war will end one day. Wars always do.”

— Scott Westerfeld

117. “And it was pretty clear that no prince was showing up, or at least that he was really late.”

— Scott Westerfeld

118. “It must be horrible to see an ugly face when your surrounded by such beautiful people all the time.”

— Scott Westerfeld

119. “Frighteningly Beautiful, Dangerously Strong, Breathtakingly Fast. Face it Tally-wa you’re special...”

— Scott Westerfeld

120. “Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.”

— Scott Westerfeld

121. “Where did you get that idea for a nose? – Frizz Mizuno.”

— Scott Westerfeld

122. “A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak.”

— Scott Westerfeld

123. “I wouldn’t say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time – phones, music players, etc. – are blobjects.”

— Scott Westerfeld

124. “There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you’re-in-trouble smile.”

— Scott Westerfeld

125. “Fuzzy Tally is no more.”

— Scott Westerfeld

126. “The man was allergic to sleep.”

— Scott Westerfeld

127. “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

128. “Listen, you bubblehead-up-until-five-minutes-ago...”

— Scott Westerfeld

129. “To everyone who loves a long-secret romance, revealed at last.”

— Scott Westerfeld

130. “Even mocking people helped their face stats. In the reputation economy, the only real way to hurt anyone was to ignore them completely. And it was pretty hard to ignore someone who made your blood boil.”

— Scott Westerfeld

131. “Money’s the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters – a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.”

— Scott Westerfeld

132. “And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?”

— Scott Westerfeld

133. “That was one problem with dramatic exits: Sometimes they wound up making you look like a bubblehead.”

— Scott Westerfeld

134. “She was a soldier, not some girl twisting her skirts at a village dance.”

— Scott Westerfeld

135. “Wisdom tells me i’m nothing, love tells me I’m everything.”

— Scott Westerfeld

136. “Some mornings when I wake up, it takes a long time to remember who I am. Like, it takes a while for everything that’s happened in last month to download into my brain. It’s nice, not knowing. Even if it’s just for five minutes.”

— Scott Westerfeld

137. “Most men’s awareness doesn’t extend past their dinner plates.”

— Scott Westerfeld

138. “Perhaps Clankers and Darwinists would always be at war, if only in their hearts.”

— Scott Westerfeld

139. “Luckily for writers – and unluckily for history – every scientific idea creates human conflict.”

— Scott Westerfeld

140. “I’m not the one going for a biology degree. I’m just a philosophy major who eats people.”

— Scott Westerfeld

141. “The scent of a faraway place lay on my skin.”

— Scott Westerfeld

142. “A country with two kings will always falter.”

— Scott Westerfeld

143. “We don’t have to look like everyone else... and act like everyone else. We’ve got a choice. We can grow up any way we want... It’s about becoming what I want to become, not what some surgical committee thinks I should.”

— Scott Westerfeld

144. “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. Otherwise, you might as well be living on a reservation, worshipping a bunch of bogus gods.”

— Scott Westerfeld

145. “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

146. “And the worst thing was, there were no mirrors out there in the wild, so the princess was left wondering whether she in fact was still beautiful... or if the fall had changed the story completely.”

— Scott Westerfeld

147. “You fiddle lucker!? she cried.”

— Scott Westerfeld

148. “One of the most common questions writers are asked is “Where do you get your ideas?” But the sad truth is, we don’t know. Ideas can come at any time and from any direction: in the shower, waiting for an elevator, or while bouncing across Wikipedia pages.”

— Scott Westerfeld

149. “She laughed and broke into a run, racing out to grab handfuls of raindrops from the air, all alone in a world of diamonds.”

— Scott Westerfeld

150. “I thought when he learned my secret, he would understand the ally I could be. But instead, he doesn’t even know who I am.”

— Scott Westerfeld