472 Quotes by Scott Westerfeld

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

However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally’s choice to stay.

What happens when perfection isn’t good enough?

I feel like sometimes my best friend is not my best friend but my mortal enemy.

It doesn’t take much convincing to make someone believe they’re better than everyone else.

It didn’t matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself.

Perhaps it’s worth saying again: One reader’s discomfort should never stand in the way of another reader’s survival.

I’ve learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I’ve also learned to making big-scale design decisions early.

What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, ‘They lived happily ever after,’ and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.