472 Quotes by Scott Westerfeld

There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away, all that's left is some story in a history class.

Irony is always the best weapon against facism.

I took a rant-sized breath.

The Rusties had more than one dream ..... After the first crude city killers were invented... they were redesigned to send people into space. Death and hope in one machine,

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.

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.

There was a long pause. "Um, I'm afraid I don't know the word in English.""The word for what?""I just said I don't know it!

But it won't be much of a battle, will it?" Alek asked. "What can an airship do to a pair of ironclads?""My guess is, we'll stay absolutely still for an hour.  Just so we don't fall into any bad habits.

Do you promise?" He demanded again."I can't let you go, Alek." She said softly."You...what?