“Fate didn't care a squick about what anybody was meant to do.” — Scott Westerfeld Destiny Copy Share Image
It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home. — Scott Westerfeld Courage Copy Share Image
That was one problem with dramatic exits: Sometimes they wound up making you look like a bubblehead. — Scott Westerfeld Dramatic Copy Share Image
I feel like sometimes my best friend is not my best friend but my mortal enemy — Scott Westerfeld Best friend Copy Share Image
There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you're-in-trouble smile. — Scott Westerfeld Disappointed Copy Share Image
“Fifteen!" Dess's distant cry reached him. "Where the hell are you, Rex? Ten. You're-an-idiot-nine, get-back-here-eight, you-dimwit-seven...” — Scott Westerfeld Idiot Copy Share Image
The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them. — Scott Westerfeld Beautiful Copy Share Image
there was a beautiful princess with a prince kissing her lips only the prince was totally ugly — Scott Westerfeld Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Yeah, I can read", he said. "Didn't mean to shock you. Maybe you thought I ran around in a little wheel all… — Scott Westerfeld Didn Mean Copy Share Image
The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. Of course, Tally thought, you’d have to feed your cat only salmon-flavored… — Scott Westerfeld Cat Copy Share Image
Probably? So you're asking me to trust my life to steel wool and peanut butter?" "Poisoned peanut butter." "Cal, I don't care… — Scott Westerfeld Asking Copy Share Image
You and David could both be right. Maybe human beings are programmed … to help one another, even to fall in love.… — Scott Westerfeld Cities Copy Share Image
What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and… — Scott Westerfeld Ending Copy Share Image
you're infamous, Tally. Everyone's terrified of you. The new system may have made the other cities nervous, but they seem to think… — Scott Westerfeld Cities Copy Share Image
...I want those perfect eyes and lips, and for everyone to look at me and gasp. And for everyone who sees me… — Scott Westerfeld Eye Copy Share Image
Even mocking people helped their face stats. In the reputation economy, the only real way to hurt anyone was to ignore them… — Scott Westerfeld Blood Copy Share Image
“Maybe they’re not as mindless as we thought, or so dedicated to turning every last human into one of them. Like Kalyn… — Scott Westerfeld Zombies Copy Share Image
And you know, these things don't last forever.' I know, Mandy. Nothing does.' That's the spirit. — Scott Westerfeld Doe Copy Share Image
Have a little faith in me, Volger." "I have great faith, tempered with vast annoyance. — Scott Westerfeld Annoyance Copy Share Image
If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you. — Scott Westerfeld Blind Copy Share Image
That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become. — Scott Westerfeld Comforting Copy Share Image
History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep. — Scott Westerfeld History Copy Share Image
It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else. — Scott Westerfeld Believe Copy Share Image
When the term 'machine gun' enters common parlance, the word 'machine' becomes much more sinister. — Scott Westerfeld Becomes Copy Share Image
“You have a bad habit of listing anything that can go wrong, Volger." "I have always considered that a good habit” — Scott Westerfeld Bad habit Copy Share Image
Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma. — Scott Westerfeld Endangered Copy Share Image
maybe when you look at your face 50 times its really not that interesting anymore — Scott Westerfeld Faces Copy Share Image
Ah. So he's forgotten the most important rule of warfare. Which is... That nothing ever goes to plan. — Scott Westerfeld Forgotten Copy Share Image
Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority? — Scott Westerfeld Anger Copy Share Image
Do you love him?" Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. "He makes me feel like that. Like flying. — Scott Westerfeld Feels Copy Share Image
I think any List of Best X creates arguments and people saying 'You listed that rubbish?' That's what lists like this are… — Scott Westerfeld Any Copy Share Image
I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people. — Scott Westerfeld Biology Copy Share Image
High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You… — Scott Westerfeld Bigs Copy Share Image
I kissed him once," she whispered. "Well done. What did he do?" "Um..." Deryn sighed. "He woke up. — Scott Westerfeld Done Copy Share Image
Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch. — Scott Westerfeld Consuming Copy Share Image
Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look," she said. "No," David said. "It changes the way you think. — Scott Westerfeld Becoming Copy Share Image
Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies. — Scott Westerfeld Band Copy Share Image
