Scott Westerfeld: Quotes about beauty

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”