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Scott Westerfeld
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 5
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Science Fiction Writer
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Dallas
Texas
Scott David Westerfeld
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Didn't this beat everything? A pretty and an ugly taking a stroll together. The warden came closer, confusion all over his middle-pretty face. Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. I'm Tally Youngblood, she said. Make me pretty.
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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.
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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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They walked with a pedatory grace.... one of them ripped off their hood and said, my name is Tally Youngblood and is a special circumstance.
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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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Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.
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Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.
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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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In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly.
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Sooner or later usually means too late
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She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. Tally Youngblood was a weed. And, unlike the orchids, she wasn't even a pretty one.
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And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?
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Okay... That's still blind-making.
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Dude, I just watched you climb up a f*cking building!-Lace
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you dont see me, now you do, but only if i want you to
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And you know, these things don't last forever.' I know, Mandy. Nothing does.' That's the spirit.
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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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The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.
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your not alone, Tally. Don't pretend you are
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He makes me feel like that. Like flying.
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