472 Quotes by Scott Westerfeld

Most men’s awareness doesn’t extend past their dinner plates.

I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that’s not really a Scott thing. It’s pretty classic grab-the-reader technique.

Maybe that was the point of truth-you could erase it all you wanted, and it was there was to be discovered again.

Because that’s what people need after traumas, apparently – lots of long conversations about the effects of trauma.

Hiding from the truth was worse than being lied to.

First love is amazing and wonderful, but a kind of panic underlies it, a sense of not knowing what you’re doing.

The war will end one day. Wars always do.

I thought when he learned my secret, he would understand the ally I could be. But instead, he doesn’t even know who I am.

So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?′ – Tally to Peris.