01UndatedWhat did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.Scott Westerfeld / quote ↗
04UndatedAnd the worst thing was, there were no mirrors out there in the wild, so the princess was left wondering whether she in fact was still beautiful... or if the fall had changed the story completely.Scott Westerfeld / quote ↗
06Undated...I want those perfect eyes and lips, and for everyone to look at me and gasp. And for everyone who sees me to think Who's that? and want to get to know me, and listen to what I say.""I'd rather have something to say.Scott Westerfeld / quote ↗
07UndatedBut you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.Scott Westerfeld / quote ↗
09UndatedNow,young lady,I suppose you're here for a work assignment."Work?" Tally said.They both looked down at her puzzled expression, and Shay burst into laughter.Scott Westerfeld / quote ↗
12UndatedShay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.Scott Westerfeld / quote ↗
13UndatedWith everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.Scott Westerfeld / quote ↗
14UndatedTally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.Scott Westerfeld / quote ↗
15UndatedDo you love him?”Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. “He makes me feel like that. Like flying.”“Then, you have to tell him.”“I told you, I kissed him!”“It’s hardly the same. I kissed you, after all. That wasn’t love, Mr. Sharp.”“Aye, and what exactly was it?”“Curiosity.” Lilit smiled. “And as I said, you’re quite a dashing boy.”“But I’m pretty sure Alek doesn’t want a dashing boy!”“You can’t be sure until you ask.”Deryn shook her head. “You were raised to throw bombs. I wasn’t.”“Were you raised to wear trousers and be a soldier?Scott Westerfeld / quote ↗
19UndatedFirst love is amazing and wonderful, but a kind of panic underlies it, a sense of not knowing what you're doing.Scott Westerfeld / quote ↗
20UndatedMaybe that was the price of loving someone: you lost your grasp of where they ended and you began.Scott Westerfeld / quote ↗
24UndatedLooking for a thousand years is worth it, if in the end you find what you need.Scott Westerfeld / quote ↗
