472 Quotes by Scott Westerfeld

But somehow her satisfaction never lasted very long. She always found herself changing, pushing against the limits and ruining things for everyone around her."It's not always my fault," she said softly. "Things just get complicated, sometimes.

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

Along its raw dirt floor, puddles of afternoon rain reflected the starlit sky, like jagged slivers of mirror.

Während Alek zuschaute, begriff er, wie primitiv er das Gerät benutzt hatte, so wie eine Katze, die Klavier spielt.

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.

What happens when perfection isn't good enough?

The man was allergic to sleep.

Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.

The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit.