472 Quotes by Scott Westerfeld

She was a soldier, not some girl twisting her skirts at a village dance.

Emperors are vain and useless things.

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

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.

And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?

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

I kissed him once," she whispered."Well done. What did he do?""Um..." Deryn sighed. "He woke up.

You fiddle lucker!' she cried.

A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak.