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Scott Westerfeld
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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.
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Scott Westerfeld, Extras, 2007
Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.
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Scott Westerfeld, Extras, 2007
Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.
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Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan, 2009
High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track.
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Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters: Blue Noon, 2005
Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.
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Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters: Blue Noon, 2005
Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help.
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Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters: Blue Noon, 2005
A little drama wins more friends than boring.
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Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters: The Secret Hour, 2004
It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.
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Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005
People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.
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Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005
The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.
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Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005
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
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Scott Westerfeld, Pretties, 2005
Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.
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Scott Westerfeld, So Yesterday, 2004
Freedom has a way of destroying things.
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Scott Westerfeld, Specials, 2006
It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.
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Scott Westerfeld, Specials, 2006
Here's what I've learned about dogs: They're a lot like pretty girls. Having one or two around makes everything more fun, but when you get a whole bunch together, it turns into one big power struggle.
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Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days, 2006
I'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.
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Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days, 2006
Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they're never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they're about as much good as friends.
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Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days, 2006
Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.
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Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days, 2006
We don't always get to choose what we love.
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Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days, 2006
Hard work's a good distraction.
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Scott Westerfeld, Uglies, 2005
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