Scott Westerfeld: Trending quotes (page 2)

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

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

“Having a brain hurt so much sometimes.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing
nothing.”

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

“Never bored on a hoverboard.”