472 Quotes by Scott Westerfeld

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic grab-the-reader technique.

Two weeks of killer sunburn is worth a lifetime of being gorgeous

Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies.

In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly.

Which was worse: a friend with brain damage, or one who despised you?

Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they're never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they're about as much good as friends.

That was one problem with dramatic exits: Sometimes they wound up making you look like a bubblehead.

I'm not sure what I am anymore... Sometimes I think I'm nothing but what other people have done to me―a big collection of brainwashing, surgeries, and cures... That, and all the mistakes I've made. All the people I've disappointed.