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Scott Westerfeld Inspirational Quotes (126)

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your not alone, Tally. Don't pretend you are
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Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing nothing.
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Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.
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What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.
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Even mocking people helped their face stats. In the reputation economy, the only real way to hurt anyone was to ignore them completely. And it was pretty hard to ignore someone who made your blood boil.
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Having a brain hurt so much sometimes.
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And it was pretty clear that no prince was showing up, or at least that he was really late.
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Perhaps Clankers and Darwinists would always be at war, if only in their hearts.
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A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak.
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The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.
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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.
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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.
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Oh, this beast? It's...perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'. Get stuffed, Bovril said, then giggled. And it insults people, Telsa said. How peculiar.
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That letter was your whole future, you daft prince. It was my past. I lost that the night my parents died. But I found you, Deryn. Maybe I wasn't meant to end the war, but I was meant to find you. I know that. You've saved me from having any reason to keep going. We save each other. That's how it works.
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Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.
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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
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Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma.
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She carried a knife inside of herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her thoughts strayed from the splendor of the wild.
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The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.
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That was the whole point of being special: You existed to make sure everyone else behaved, but that didn't mean YOU had to.
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The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.
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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.
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You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.
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The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to a steam engine, where you can watch the pistons move and feel the heat of its boilers. I think we miss that visceral appeal of the machine.
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