01UndatedThe human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.Scott Westerfeld / quote ↗
02UndatedDo you love him?"Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. "He makes me feel like that. Like flying.Scott Westerfeld / quote ↗
03UndatedIt's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.Scott Westerfeld / quote ↗
04UndatedAt least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.Scott Westerfeld / quote ↗
06UndatedAnd a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag.Scott Westerfeld / quote ↗
08UndatedPerhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.Scott Westerfeld / quote ↗
09UndatedMaybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.Scott Westerfeld / quote ↗
10UndatedIgnorance doesn't lead to salvation, nor does knowledge pave the way to sin. - Cinda Williams ChimaScott Westerfeld / quote ↗
11UndatedI expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady."Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. "There are always rewards for those who state the obvious frequently and with conviction.Scott Westerfeld / quote ↗
12UndatedShe needed Andrew Simpson Smith, it was that simple. And he had spent his life training to help people like her. Gods. "Okay, Andrew. But let's leave today. I'm in a hurry.""Of course. Today." He stroked the place where his slight beard was beginning to grow. "These ruins where your friends are waiting? Where are they?"Tally glances up at the sun, still low enough to indicate the eastern horizon. After a moment's calculation, she pointed off to the northwest, back toward the city and beyond that, the Rusty Ruins. "About a week's walk that way." "A week?""That means seven days.""Yes, I know the gods' calendar," he said huffily. "But a whole week?""Yeah. That's not so far, is it?" The hunters had been tireless on their march the night before. He shook his head, an awed expression on his face. "But that is beyond the edge of the world.Scott Westerfeld / quote ↗
13UndatedYou're insane!" she shouted."Pretty cool, huh?""No!"Tally yelled. "Why didn't you tell me it was broken?"Shay shrugged. "More fun that way?""More fun?" Her heart beating fast,her vision strangely clear. She was full of anger and relief and...joy."Well, kind of. But you suck!Scott Westerfeld / quote ↗
14UndatedThe Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people, and everyone was incredibly stupid. And ugly.Scott Westerfeld / quote ↗
15UndatedGood books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.Scott Westerfeld / quote ↗
16UndatedMaybe human beings are programmed … to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad, Tally. Besides, we had a whole city of pretties to choose from, and we chose each other.Scott Westerfeld / quote ↗
17UndatedMaybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.Scott Westerfeld / quote ↗
18UndatedThat Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.Scott Westerfeld / quote ↗
19UndatedAlek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?" "I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.Scott Westerfeld / quote ↗
20UndatedHe thinks Goliath can end the war," Alek managed at last. "The man wants peace!" "As do we all," Count Volger said. "But there are many ways to end a war. Some are more peaceful than others.Scott Westerfeld / quote ↗
21UndatedSurely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city.""There are no limits in war," Volger said, still staring out the window.Scott Westerfeld / quote ↗
22UndatedNo matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.Scott Westerfeld / quote ↗
24UndatedI'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.Scott Westerfeld / quote ↗
