Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights. — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
“Growing up like rewriting is simply admitting how clueless you were not so long ago.” — Scott Westerfeld Blog Copy Share Image
Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death. — Scott Westerfeld Culture Copy Share Image
Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it. — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach. — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict. — Scott Westerfeld Conflict Copy Share Image
“Weird, even for one of us. Or maybe she's worse." "Worse how?" "Normal.” — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
“Maybe human beings are programmed...to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it… — Scott Westerfeld Fall in love Copy Share Image
Did you really think I was too fragile to know what Deryn was?" "Fragile?" Volger looked about. "I hadn't thought so, but… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
She carried a knife inside of herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed,… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
“Being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain . . .… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
And the worst thing was, there were no mirrors out there in the wild, so the princess was left wondering whether she… — Scott Westerfeld Beautiful Copy Share Image
With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
“She'd never have to cut herself again. She carries a knife inside herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
“You don't look very happy." Tally tried to smile. David had shared his biggest secret with her; she should tell him hers.… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Deryn felt brilliant, rising through the air at the center off everyone's attention, like an acrobat aloft on a swing. She wanted… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
She couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
“Deryn had been there every step of the way. “We are connected, aren’t we?” “Aye,” she said, still chewing. “And for us… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
She looked at David closely, and the feeling was still there. She could see that his forehead was too high, that a… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
She turned to Frizz. "So you understand the problem? You can't let Tally know about Radical Honesty. There's no telling what she'll… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
“Anything more than friendship with her would destroy his chances of taking the throne. But every time one of them had fallen… — Scott Westerfeld Friendship Copy Share Image
I know what it’s like to be manipulated, Aya-la. And I know what it’s like to be in danger. While your city… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
“Or maybe when they do the operation- when they grind and stretch your bones to the right shape, peel off your face… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
“Fate didn't care a squick about what anybody was meant to do.” — Scott Westerfeld Destiny Copy Share Image
Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty. — Scott Westerfeld Beauty Copy Share Image
