472 Quotes by Scott Westerfeld

I wouldn’t say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time – phones, music players, etc. – are blobjects.

Nate liked money. It was a sleek and clever invention, beautiful in the way it lubricated power and focused people’s attention. But it had a clumsy, brutal side, too. Money bludgeoned people without it into silence, shut them away in neighborhoods like this.

Blurbs don’t work anymore!” was another. “You should make sure that the quotable lines of dialogue in your book never exceed a hundred and forty characters!” seemed at best debatable.

There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you’re-in-trouble smile.

It must be horrible to see an ugly face when your surrounded by such beautiful people all the time.

Haven’t you ever known someone rejected by a lover, who, consumed by rage and jealousy, never lets go? They look on from a distance, unseen but boiling inside. The emotion never seems to tire, this hatred mixed with intense obsession, even with a kind of twisted love.

Or maybe when they do the operation- when they grind and stretch your bones to the right shape, peel off your face and rub all your skin away, and stick in plastic cheekbones so you look like everybody else- maybe after going through all that you just aren’t very interesting anymore. -Shay, Uglies.

Your public-spiritedness is appreciated, I assure you.

People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that’s the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.