472 Quotes by Scott Westerfeld

The opening chapter was the book’s unique selling point, the singular idea that had carried Darcy through last November, and Coleman had just come up with it off the top of his head.

Run and hide. We’re on our way.

And even though her journal was just random sentences, she did spin stories in my head. The sound of her voice made dreams happen.

Once there was a girl named Riley, the story began. Her heart was a secret garden, its stone walls cracked and weathered. And it was hungry. p160.

Frighteningly Beautiful, Dangerously Strong, Breathtakingly Fast. Face it Tally-wa you’re special...

Without lesions making everyone agreeable, society was left roiling in a constant battle of words, images, and ideas. All around her Tally felt the city seething, all those unfettered minds bouncing their opinions off each other, like something ready to explode.

She would find her answers in the words she wrote, in the stories she told, not by asking for permission.

Fun fact: there are also 3,000 varieties of pears. That’s right. Even PEARS are more complicated than you thought!

She had changed the arc of her own story, merely by typing a couple of thousand words each day for thirty days.