472 Quotes by Scott Westerfeld

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

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

You and David could both be right. 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."-Zane

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.

Perhaps Clankers and Darwinists would always be at war, if only in their hearts.

Ah. So he's forgotten the most important rule of warfare. Which is... That nothing ever goes to plan.

It's just been a long week, that's all." "It's monday night, Jess." "My point exactly.

Ring around the rosie. A pocket full of posie. Ashes ashes, we all fall down. Some people say that this poem is about the Black Death, the fourteenth-century plague that killed 100-million people... Sadly, though, most experts think this is nonsense... How can I be so sure about this rhyme when all the experts disagree? Because I ate the kid who made it up.

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.