472 Quotes by Scott Westerfeld

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. – Francis Bacon, Essays, Civil and Moral, “Of Beauty.

Dare to ask, “Where is my novel too simple?”

She laughed and broke into a run, racing out to grab handfuls of raindrops from the air, all alone in a world of diamonds.

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

Don’t worry,” he kept saying. “The overworld can’t hurt you if you stay calm.” I wasn’t calm at all. But my panic was like a poisonous snake at a zoo, staring at me from the other side of thick glass. Only Yamaraj’s touch on my arm kept the glass from shattering. His skin seemed to burn against mine.

Your book is smart and beautiful. I want to have its sequels.

It’s exciting. But you can’t keep fighting the way things are forever.

A milli-Helen is enough beauty to launch exactly one ship.

By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower. – Rabindranath Tagore, “Stray Birds.