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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
Scott Westerfeld
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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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She wasn't here to gawk. She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission.
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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.
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It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.
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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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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.
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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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It didn't matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself.
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There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you're-in-trouble smile.
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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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And it was pretty clear that no prince was showing up, or at least that he was really late.
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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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Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Everyone ugly was in bed by now.
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