110+ Scott Westerfeld Quotes On Education, Society And Order

Scott Westerfeld is an American writer of young adult fiction, best known for the Uglies and Leviathan series. He has written several standalone novels, as well as a number of graphic novels and non-fiction books. He is also the author of the Zeroes trilogy and the Afterworlds duology. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Scott Westerfeld on education, leadership, society.

Top 10 Scott Westerfeld Quotes

1. The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.
2. What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.
3. My name is tally youngblood and my mind is very ugly
4. I'm Tally Youngblood. Make me pretty." -Tally Youngblood
5. Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.
6. Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.
7. I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood
8. The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.
9. A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.
10. The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.

Scott Westerfeld Short Quotes

• You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.
• Let others wage war. You, lucky Austria, shall marry.
• Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.
• Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.
• Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.
• I go where the lizards tell me.
• I kissed him once," she whispered. "Well done. What did he do?" "Um..." Deryn sighed. "He woke up.
• you dont see me, now you do, but only if i want you to
• Fuzzy Tally is no more.
• The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit.

Scott Westerfeld Quotes About Love

Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was. — Scott Westerfeld

We don't always get to choose what we love. — Scott Westerfeld

You and David could both be right. 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 bad, Tally. Besides, we had a whole city of pretties to choose from, and we chose each other."-Zane — Scott Westerfeld

To everyone who loves a long-secret romance, revealed at last. — Scott Westerfeld

Do you love him?" Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. "He makes me feel like that. Like flying. — Scott Westerfeld

Maybe that was the price of loving someone: You lost your grasp of where they ended and you began. — Scott Westerfeld

I love you all. But it's time to say good-bye, for now. be careful with the world, or the next time we meet, it might get ugly. -Tally Youngblood — Scott Westerfeld

Sometimes you can’t choose what you love. — Scott Westerfeld

It's just programming" "No. It's because I love him — Scott Westerfeld

I love my virginity to the apocalypse. — Scott Westerfeld

Scott Westerfeld Quotes About Fun

Making ourselves feel ugly is not fun." "We are ugly. — Scott Westerfeld

I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun. — Scott Westerfeld

the parties are no fun until everyone gets drunk — Scott Westerfeld

You're insane!" she shouted. "Pretty cool, huh?" "No!"Tally yelled. "Why didn't you tell me it was broken?" Shay shrugged. "More fun that way?" "More fun?" Her heart beating fast,her vision strangely clear. She was full of anger and relief and...joy. "Well, kind of. But you suck! — Scott Westerfeld

Scott Westerfeld Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Scott Westerfeld

I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled. — Scott Westerfeld

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 was building you mansions to live in, my friends and I have been protecting this planet. We’ve spilled more blood than you have flowing in your veins. So don’t try to make me feel guilty! -Tally Youngblood, Extras — Scott Westerfeld

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

...I want those perfect eyes and lips, and for everyone to look at me and gasp. And for everyone who sees me to think Who's that? and want to get to know me, and listen to what I say." "I'd rather have something to say. — Scott Westerfeld

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

As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a way that felt like choosing but was actually the dance of little gears--neurons and hormones bubbling up into decisions like clockwork. You don't use your body; it uses you. — Scott Westerfeld

She looked at David closely, and the feeling was still there. She could see that his forehead was too high, that a small scar cut a white stroke through his eyebrow. And his smile was pretty crooked, really. But it was as if something had changed inside Tally's head, something that had turned his face pretty to her. — Scott Westerfeld

High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track. — Scott Westerfeld

Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart. — Scott Westerfeld

The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to a steam engine, where you can watch the pistons move and feel the heat of its boilers. I think we miss that visceral appeal of the machine. — Scott Westerfeld

Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they're never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they're about as much good as friends. — Scott Westerfeld

Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same. — Scott Westerfeld

I used to be a pre-industrial writer: thousands of words in a spurt and then a few days off. But as I get older, I've switched to a mode best described as 'slow and steady wins the race.' Basically, I write during the same four hours every day, after breakfast and the all-important coffee, generally in the same room and wearing the same pajamas. — Scott Westerfeld

It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home. — Scott Westerfeld

She couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no doubt few and far between. (...), that made stories a valuable commodity, and it probably wasn't very often that a stranger dropped in from the sky. — 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

Tally wondered if you could talk somebody out of their brain damage. — Scott Westerfeld

That was one problem with dramatic exits: Sometimes they wound up making you look like a bubblehead. — Scott Westerfeld

But you know what? It's not my behavior I'm worried about anymore. It's yours. — Scott Westerfeld

there was a beautiful princess with a prince kissing her lips only the prince was totally ugly — Scott Westerfeld

Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing. — Scott Westerfeld

The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people, and everyone was incredibly stupid. And ugly. — Scott Westerfeld

I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people. — Scott Westerfeld

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee. -Jonathan — Scott Westerfeld

Did you really think I was too fragile to know what Deryn was?" "Fragile?" Volger looked about. "I hadn't thought so, but now I find you brooding in a bathroom. This doesn't speak well of your sturdiness. — Scott Westerfeld

You look beautiful - David — Scott Westerfeld

She smiled, turning toward Alek. "You don't know what a friend you have in Dylan. — Scott Westerfeld

That letter was your whole future, you daft prince." "It was my past. I lost that the night my parents died. But I found you, Deryn. Maybe I wasn't meant to end the war, but I was meant to find you. I know that. You've saved me from having any reason to keep going." "We save each other. That's how it works. — Scott Westerfeld

I feel like sometimes my best friend is not my best friend but my mortal enemy — Scott Westerfeld

The world rests upon a turtle, which itself stands on the back of an elephant!” Alek tried not to laugh. “Then what does the elephant stand on, madam?” “Don’t try to be clever, young man.” She narrowed her eyes. “It’s elephants all the way down! — Scott Westerfeld

And over all those sleepy weeks, the dream always ended the same way, with the dragon coming for the princess saying the same words every time.... "Face it, Tally-wa, you're Special. — Scott Westerfeld

Have a little faith in me, Volger." "I have great faith, tempered with vast annoyance. — Scott Westerfeld

Probably? So you're asking me to trust my life to steel wool and peanut butter?" "Poisoned peanut butter." "Cal, I don't care if it's nuclear peanut butter. — Scott Westerfeld

Once we turn, it’s new pretty, middle pretty, late pretty.” Shay dropped her arms, and her board stopped drifting. “Then dead pretty. — Scott Westerfeld

Dude, I just watched you climb up a f*cking building!-Lace — Scott Westerfeld

I make it a policy never to appear surprised" - Dr Barlow — Scott Westerfeld

Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them. — Scott Westerfeld

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. — Scott Westerfeld

Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?" "I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war. — Scott Westerfeld

And it was pretty clear that no prince was showing up, or at least that he was really late. — Scott Westerfeld

No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us. — Scott Westerfeld

That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both. — Scott Westerfeld

What about a hoverboard?" "It's waiting on the roof, of course." Dr. Cable snorted. "What is it about you miscreants and those things? — Scott Westerfeld

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

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

Deryn felt brilliant, rising through the air at the center off everyone's attention, like an acrobat aloft on a swing. She wanted to make a speech: Hey, all you sods, I can fly and you can't! A natural airman, in case you haven't noticed. And in conclusion, I'd like to add that I'm a girl and you can all get stuffed! — Scott Westerfeld

You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips. — Scott Westerfeld

Emperors are vain and useless things. — Scott Westerfeld

Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry. — Scott Westerfeld

He and I have this... personality conflict. Namely, I think he should get a new one. — Scott Westerfeld

There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you're-in-trouble smile. — Scott Westerfeld

Okay... That's still blind-making. — Scott Westerfeld

Come on, it's almost midnight. Let's go watch them cut the cake. — Scott Westerfeld

Perhaps Clankers and Darwinists would always be at war, if only in their hearts. — Scott Westerfeld

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. — Scott Westerfeld

Barking hard work, being a boy. — Scott Westerfeld

Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain—Maddy glanced at Tally—and selfish. It only takes a twist to lock in that part of their personalities. He always thought that some people could think their way out of it. — Scott Westerfeld

Her only way home was to betray her friend. — Scott Westerfeld

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

When she awoke, the world was on fire. — Scott Westerfeld

History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep. — Scott Westerfeld

You're splitting?" "No sh*it, Sherlock. — Scott Westerfeld

Sooner or later usually means too late — Scott Westerfeld

In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly. — Scott Westerfeld

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". — Scott Westerfeld

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

Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse - bright knives slicing the night into pieces. — Scott Westerfeld

A little drama wins more friends than boring. — Scott Westerfeld

Two weeks of killer sunburn is worth a lifetime of being gorgeous — Scott Westerfeld

your not alone, Tally. Don't pretend you are — Scott Westerfeld

Life doesn't come with an instruction manual. — Scott Westerfeld

If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you. — Scott Westerfeld

Perhaps it's worth saying again: One reader's discomfort should never stand in the way of another reader's survival. — Scott Westerfeld

Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch. — Scott Westerfeld

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

I'm not sure what I am anymore... Sometimes I think I'm nothing but what other people have done to me―a big collection of brainwashing, surgeries, and cures... That, and all the mistakes I've made. All the people I've disappointed. — Scott Westerfeld

Now,young lady,I suppose you're here for a work assignment." Work?" Tally said. They both looked down at her puzzled expression, and Shay burst into laughter. — Scott Westerfeld

Dess shook her head. "Before he walked off, Rex said for you to wait. He said it's totally important you don't touch Angie until he comes back. and he said that if you were a pain about it, I get to hit you with that." She pointed to where the darkling had flung Flabbergasted Supernumerary Mathematician, its tip blackened by ichor and fire. "So, go ahead. — Scott Westerfeld

He squeezed her hand. "Then I'll come get you, wherever you are when it happens. We'll be okay." "But what about everybody else?" He stared out across the river, nodding slowly. "My guess is, everybody else is in big trouble. — Scott Westerfeld

Having a brain hurt so much sometimes. — Scott Westerfeld

Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos. — Scott Westerfeld

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. — Scott Westerfeld

Life Lessons by Scott Westerfeld

1. Scott Westerfeld teaches us to be creative and to think outside the box when it comes to storytelling. He encourages us to be brave and to take risks in our writing, even if it means going against the grain.
2. He emphasizes the importance of research and of understanding the world around us in order to create a believable and engaging story.
3. Lastly, Scott Westerfeld encourages us to explore the power of collaboration and to work together to create something bigger and better than what we could have done alone.