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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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Scott Westerfeld Quotes

“Being an author sucks, doesn't it? It's like telling a joke and nobody laughs for two years.”

Scott Westerfeld book Afterworlds

Source: Afterworlds

“Sooner or later usually means too late”

Scott Westerfeld

“Lilt pulled away. "I saw what he was doing, so I cleared a path for him. I helped him do it…" She shook her head, tears tracking the dust off her face, and turned to stare at the fallen tower. "Have we all gone mad to want this?”

Scott Westerfeld book Behemoth

Source: Behemoth

“Bubbly is bogus.”

Scott Westerfeld book Pretties

Source: Pretties

“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 book Specials

Source: Specials

“Where did you get that idea for a nose?
- Frizz Mizuno”

Scott Westerfeld book Extras

Source: Extras

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

Scott Westerfeld book Specials

Source: Specials

“Probably? So you're asking me to trust my life to steel wool and peanut butter?"
"Poisoned peanut butter."
"Cal, I don't care if it's nuclear peanut butter.”

Scott Westerfeld book Peeps

Source: Peeps

“Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city."

"There are no limits in war," Volger said, still staring out the window.”

Scott Westerfeld book Goliath

Source: Goliath

“the parties are no fun until everyone gets drunk”

Scott Westerfeld

“Fine. Seer knows best, even if he is nuts. Maybe I can stand to wait a few more… whoa. What the hell happened to my car?
-Melissa”

Scott Westerfeld book Blue Noon

Source: Blue Noon

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

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

Source: Uglies

“But they're already singing our praises!"
"They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything.”

Scott Westerfeld book Goliath

Source: Goliath

“What about a hoverboard?"
"It's waiting on the roof, of course." Dr. Cable snorted. "What is it about you miscreants and those things?”

Scott Westerfeld book Specials

Source: Specials

“so pRetty i hAd to Eat hiM”

Scott Westerfeld book Peeps

Source: Peeps

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

Scott Westerfeld book Extras

Source: Extras

“Real life doesn’t have many happy endings. Why shouldn’t books make up the difference?”

Scott Westerfeld book Afterworlds

Source: Afterworlds

“It's just the way things are." she shrugged. "It's no one's fault."
"Or everyone's.”

Scott Westerfeld book Goliath

Source: Goliath

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

Scott Westerfeld book Afterworlds

Source: Afterworlds

“Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.”

Scott Westerfeld book Extras

Source: Extras

“I'm not sure what I am anymore… Sometimes I think I'm nothing but what other people have done to me―a big collection of brainwashing, surgeries, and cures… That, and all the mistakes I've made. All the people I've disappointed.”

Scott Westerfeld book Specials

Source: Specials

“The world rests upon a turtle, which itself stands on the back of an elephant!”
Alek tried not to laugh. “Then what does the elephant stand on, madam?”
“Don’t try to be clever, young man.” She narrowed her eyes. “It’s elephants all the way down!”

Scott Westerfeld book Behemoth

Source: Behemoth