Scott Westerfeld quotes

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth. (Scott Westerfeld)
It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else. View quote
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I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have fun. View quote
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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. View quote
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Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing nothing. View quote
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It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing. View quote
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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. View quote
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People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick. View quote
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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee. -Jonathan. View quote
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Life doesn't come with an instruction manual. View quote
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What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful. (Scott Westerfeld)
Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates. View quote
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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. View quote
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Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help. View quote
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The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side. View quote
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Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing. View quote
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... humanity is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world. View quote
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The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things. View quote
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You can't blame a match for a house made of straw. View quote
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Sooner or later usually means too late. View quote
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You see, freedom has a way of destroying things. (Scott Westerfeld)
I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
Scott Westerfeld

Scott Westerfeld

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Photo: Ceridwen, CC BY 3.0
Occupation: American Author
Born: May 5, 1963
Quotes count: 162

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