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“He turned to face her again, his late-pretty composure crumbling. "But you're…"

"Pretty? Think again." She smiled. "I'm Tally Youngbood. My mind is very ugly. And I'm taking your car.”

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“The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Uglies

“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 kniha Uglies

“It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Specials

“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 kniha Touching Darkness

“Being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. Theyto be vapid and lazy and vain… and selfish. It only takes a twist to lock in that part of their personalities.”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Pretties

“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 kniha Goliath

“Come on, it's almost midnight. Let's go watch them cut the cake.”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Extras

“And the worst thing was, there were no mirrors out there in the wild, so the princess was left wondering whether she in fact was still beautiful… or if the fall had changed the story completely.”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Pretties

“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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“What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Afterworlds

“Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Uglies

“Barking hard work, being a boy.”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Leviathan

“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.”

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“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 kniha Extras

“you just took on five million years of evolution again”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Specials

“Even bloody and bruised, he had an odd sort of swagger, as if he crash-landed in giant air ships every day.”

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“Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.”

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“The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Specials

“To everyone who loves a long-secret romance, revealed at last.”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Goliath

“Emperors are vain and useless things.”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Goliath

“The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Uglies

“He makes me feel like that. Like flying.”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Goliath

“Doing what you're supposed to do is always boring. I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Uglies

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

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

Scott Westerfeld kniha Behemoth

“You can't blame a match for a house made of straw”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Goliath

“You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Goliath

“Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Leviathan