Scott Westerfeld citáty

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“Being an author sucks, doesn't it? It's like telling a joke and nobody laughs for two years.”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Afterworlds

“Sooner or later usually means too late”

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“Lilt pulled away. "I saw what he was doing, so I cleared a path for him. I helped him do it…" She shook her head, tears tracking the dust off her face, and turned to stare at the fallen tower. "Have we all gone mad to want this?”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Behemoth

“Bubbly is bogus.”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Pretties

“That was the whole point of being special: You existed to make sure everyone else behaved, but that didn't mean YOU had to.”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Specials

“Where did you get that idea for a nose?
- Frizz Mizuno”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Extras

“Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry.”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Specials

“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 kniha Peeps

“Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city."

"There are no limits in war," Volger said, still staring out the window.”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Goliath

“the parties are no fun until everyone gets drunk”

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“Fine. Seer knows best, even if he is nuts. Maybe I can stand to wait a few more… whoa. What the hell happened to my car?
-Melissa”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Blue Noon

“She wasn't here to gawk. She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission.”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Uglies

“But they're already singing our praises!"
"They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything.”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Goliath

“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 kniha Specials

“We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in…”

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“Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look," she said. "No," David said. "It changes the way you think.”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Uglies

“so pRetty i hAd to Eat hiM”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Peeps

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

Scott Westerfeld kniha Extras

“Real life doesn’t have many happy endings. Why shouldn’t books make up the difference?”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Afterworlds

“It's just the way things are." she shrugged. "It's no one's fault."
"Or everyone's.”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Goliath

“Hiding from the truth was worse than being lied to.”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Afterworlds

“Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Extras

“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 kniha Specials

“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 kniha Behemoth

“No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.”

Scott Westerfeld kniha Goliath

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

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