472 Quotes by Scott Westerfeld

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

What if destiny doesn’t care?

As a bio major, I figured “free will” meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a way that felt like choosing but was actually the dance of little gears – neurons and hormones bubbling up into decisions like clockwork. You don’t use your body; it uses you.

You can’t blame a match for a house made of straw, Alek.

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

We’re not freaks, Tally. We’re normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we’re not hyped-up Barbie dolls.

Sooner or later usually means too late.

You’d think that in a fight, NOT MOVING would be a bad habit!

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.