472 Quotes by Scott Westerfeld

"In a novel you always knew the moment when something Happened, when someone Changed. But real life was full of gradual, piecemeal, continuous transformation. It was full of accidents and undefineables, and things that just happened on their own. The only certainty was ‘It’s complicated,’ whether or not unicorns tolerated your touch."

"For some of us, politics means fighting for our right to exist."

"They broke things."

"She imagines herself as the long-dead Descartes, staring into his fireplace and building a world in his own mind."

"Sometimes I think I’m nothing but what other people have done to me."

"The scent of a faraway place lay on my skin."

"Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain. Otherwise, you might as well be living on a reservation, worshipping a bunch of bogus gods."

"Nature didn’t need an operation to be beautiful. It just was."

"I make it a policy never to appear surprised” – Dr Barlow."

"Nature can blow me."