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Scott David Westerfeld is an American writer of young adult fiction, best known as the author of the Uglies and the Leviathan series. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. May 1963  •  Other names اسکات وسترفیلد
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Famous Scott Westerfeld Quotes

“Dying is one of those things that can’t be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.”

Scott Westerfeld book Extras

Source: Extras

“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 book So Yesterday

Source: So Yesterday

“… I want those perfect eyes and lips, and for everyone to look at me and gasp. And for everyone who sees me to think Who's that? and want to get to know me, and listen to what I say."
"I'd rather have something to say.”

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Source: Uglies

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

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Source: Uglies

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

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Variant: Yes. What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.
Source: Uglies

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

Scott Westerfeld book Pretties

Source: Pretties

Scott Westerfeld Quotes about thinking

“He thinks Goliath can end the war," Alek managed at last. "The man wants peace!"

"As do we all," Count Volger said. "But there are many ways to end a war. Some are more peaceful than others.”

Scott Westerfeld book Goliath

Source: Goliath

“Did you really think I was too fragile to know what Deryn was?"

"Fragile?" Volger looked about. "I hadn't thought so, but now I find you brooding in a bathroom. This doesn't speak well of your sturdiness.”

Scott Westerfeld book Goliath

Source: Goliath

“Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look," she said. "No," David said. "It changes the way you think.”

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Source: Uglies

“He turned to face her again, his late-pretty composure crumbling. "But you're…"

"Pretty? Think again." She smiled. "I'm Tally Youngbood. My mind is very ugly. And I'm taking your car.”

Scott Westerfeld

“Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?"

"I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.”

Scott Westerfeld book Goliath

Source: Goliath

“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 book Uglies

Source: Uglies

Scott Westerfeld Quotes about beauty

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

Scott Westerfeld book Specials

Source: Specials

“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 book Pretties

Source: Pretties

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

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Source: Uglies

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

Scott Westerfeld

Source: The Uglies Trilogy

“So, there was this beautiful princess.
She was locked in a high tower(…)She was stuck up there(…)So the only thing was to jump.”

Scott Westerfeld book Pretties

Source: Pretties

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

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Source: Uglies

Scott Westerfeld: Trending quotes

“Let me get this stright, Aya-Chan. You want me, a person who can't lie, to lie about the fact that I can't lie?"
-Frizz mizuno”

Scott Westerfeld book Extras

Source: Extras

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

Scott Westerfeld book The Last Days

Source: The Last Days

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

Scott Westerfeld book Peeps

Variant: It’s amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.
Source: Peeps

Scott Westerfeld Quotes

“… humanity is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world.”

Scott Westerfeld book Pretties

Variant: humanity is a cancer on the body of the world
Source: Pretties

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

Scott Westerfeld book Extras

Source: Extras

“Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.”

Scott Westerfeld

Source: The Uglies Trilogy

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

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Source: Uglies

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

Scott Westerfeld book Extras

Source: Extras

“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 book So Yesterday

Source: So Yesterday

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

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Source: Uglies

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

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Source: 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 book Specials

Source: 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 book Uglies

Source: Uglies

“What happens when perfection isn't good enough?”

Scott Westerfeld book Pretties

Source: Pretties

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

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Source: Uglies

“Having a brain hurt so much sometimes.”

Scott Westerfeld book Specials

Source: Specials

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

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Source: Uglies

“Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at leastto grow your own brain.”

Scott Westerfeld book Pretties

Source: 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 book Uglies

Source: Uglies

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

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Source: Uglies

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

Scott Westerfeld book Leviathan

Source: Leviathan

“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 book Pretties

Source: Pretties

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

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Source: Uglies

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

Scott Westerfeld book Pretties

Source: Pretties

“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 book Pretties

Source: Pretties

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

Scott Westerfeld book Specials

Source: Specials

“Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing
nothing.”

Scott Westerfeld book Extras

Source: Extras

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

Scott Westerfeld book Pretties

Source: Pretties

“Never bored on a hoverboard.”

Scott Westerfeld

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

Scott Westerfeld book Goliath

Source: Goliath

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

Scott Westerfeld book Leviathan

Source: Leviathan

“Cure for writer's block: blow something up(in the story)”

Scott Westerfeld

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

Scott Westerfeld book Specials

Source: Specials

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

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Source: Uglies

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

Scott Westerfeld book Pretties

Source: Pretties

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

Scott Westerfeld book Goliath

Source: Goliath

“Why are you still wearing…?" Aya began. "Oh, that's not smart plastic? You're really an ugly?"
David rolled his eyes and Shay said quietly, "David's never had any surge at all. But I wouldn't use the word ugly… Tally might eat you.”

Scott Westerfeld book Extras

Source: Extras

“your not alone, Tally. Don't pretend you are”

Scott Westerfeld book Specials

Source: Specials

“you dont see me, now you do, but only if i want you to”

Scott Westerfeld

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

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Source: Uglies

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

Scott Westerfeld book Specials

Source: Specials

“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 book The Last Days

Source: The Last Days

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

Scott Westerfeld book Goliath

Variant: ... that was what kept the world interesting... reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.
Source: Goliath

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

Scott Westerfeld book Specials

Source: Specials

“Have a little faith in me, Volger."
"I have great faith, tempered with vast annoyance.”

Scott Westerfeld book Goliath

Source: Goliath

“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

Source: Midnighters Manga #1

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

Scott Westerfeld book Pretties

Source: Pretties

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

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Source: Uglies

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