472 Quotes by Scott Westerfeld

Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty.

humanity is a cancer on the body of the world

It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home.

Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice.

She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. Tally Youngblood was a weed. And, unlike the orchids, she wasn't even a pretty one.

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

That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both.

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.

Having a brain hurt so much sometimes.