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“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“You are so... 11:59”
― Scott Westerfeld, The Secret Hour

“Ring around the rosie.
A pocket full of posie.
Ashes ashes, we all fall down.
Some people say that this poem is about the Black Death, the fourteenth-century plague that killed 100-million people...
Sadly, though, most experts think this is nonsense...
How can I be so sure about this rhyme when all the experts disagree?
Because I ate the kid who made it up.”
― Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days

“Are you saying that your fat-ass cat has turned me into a vampire?

Um, maybe?”
― Scott Westerfeld, Peeps

“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, Extras

“Listen, you bubblehead-up-until-five-minutes-ago...”
― Scott Westerfeld, Specials

“Why are you still wearing...?" Aya began. "Oh, that's not smart plastic? You're really an ugly?"
David rolled his eyes and Shay said quietly, "David's never had any surge at all. But I wouldn't use the word ugly...Tally might eat you.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

“You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed, with all the cities coming awake at last. Together, you're more than enough to change the world without us. So from now on, David and I are here to stand in your way. You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.”
― Scott Westerfeld

“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.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

“Sometimes you can’t choose what you love.”
― Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days

“I’m not against thinking; I’m only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed.”
― Scott Westerfeld

“Wow," came a familiar voice, "Hypochondriac killed the cat."
-Dess”
― Scott Westerfeld, The Secret Hour

“It's not the way Zane looks, David," she said, her voice trembling with anger. "It's because he makes me bubbly, and because we took a lot of risks together. It could just as easily be me lying there, and he would stay with me if it was."
"It's just programming!"
"No. It's because I love him.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Pretties

“Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma. ”
― Scott Westerfeld, The Secret Hour

“In the blue time, math kicked ass.
-Dess”
― Scott Westerfeld, Touching Darkness

“I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady."
Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. "There are always rewards for those who state the obvious frequently and with conviction.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Touching Darkness

“The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“One of the most common questions writers are asked is "Where do you get your ideas?" But the sad truth is, we don't know. Ideas can come at any time and from any direction: in the shower, waiting for an elevator, or while bouncing across Wikipedia pages.”
― Scott Westerfeld

“Gravity was something you could beat; all it took was hydrogen, hot air, or even a bit of rope. But being a girl was a miserable, never-ending struggle.”
― Scott Westerfeld

“They'll be fine," Wickersham said. "Practice makes perfect."
I had to ask. "You practice running away?"
"We knew we'd make enemies. Other organizations have fire drills; we have oh-shit-someone-found-our-ass drills.”
― Scott Westerfeld, So Yesterday

“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.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Pretties

“Dying is one of those things that can’t be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

“However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally's choice to stay.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.”
― Scott Westerfeld

“The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. Of course, Tally thought, you’d have to feed your cat only salmon-flavored cat food for a while, to get the pinks right.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“I feel like sometimes my best friend is not my best friend but my mortal enemy”
― Scott Westerfeld

“it's not called the Rusty Ruins because some guy called Rusty found them.”
― Scott Westerfeld

“Nature can blow me.”
― Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days

“That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Specials