Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you're-in-trouble smile.
Scott Westerfeld
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Scott Westerfeld
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Dallas
Texas
Scott David Westerfeld
Species
Pretty
Trouble
Middle
Happy
Everything
Smiled
Disappointed
Smile
More quotes by Scott Westerfeld
We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in.
Scott Westerfeld
Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.
Scott Westerfeld
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.
Scott Westerfeld
Never bored on a hoverboard.
Scott Westerfeld
So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?' -- Tally to Peris
Scott Westerfeld
She couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no doubt few and far between. (...), that made stories a valuable commodity, and it probably wasn't very often that a stranger dropped in from the sky.
Scott Westerfeld
Having a brain hurt so much sometimes.
Scott Westerfeld
She wasn't here to gawk. She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission.
Scott Westerfeld
Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry.
Scott Westerfeld
Sooner or later usually means too late
Scott Westerfeld
It's just the way things are. she shrugged. It's no one's fault. Or everyone's.
Scott Westerfeld
No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.
Scott Westerfeld
I go where the lizards tell me.
Scott Westerfeld
Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain.
Scott Westerfeld
Dude, I just watched you climb up a f*cking building!-Lace
Scott Westerfeld
Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.
Scott Westerfeld
Do you love him? Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. He makes me feel like that. Like flying.
Scott Westerfeld
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
He squeezed her hand. Then I'll come get you, wherever you are when it happens. We'll be okay. But what about everybody else? He stared out across the river, nodding slowly. My guess is, everybody else is in big trouble.
Scott Westerfeld
I love you all. But it's time to say good-bye, for now. be careful with the world, or the next time we meet, it might get ugly. -Tally Youngblood
Scott Westerfeld