A little drama wins more friends than boring. - Scott Westerfeld
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. - Scott Westerfeld
I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have fun. - Scott Westerfeld
Hard work's a good distraction. - Scott Westerfeld
People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick. - Scott Westerfeld
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 - Scott Westerfeld
Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered. - Scott Westerfeld
It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing. - Scott Westerfeld
Freedom has a way of destroying things. - Scott Westerfeld
Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you. - Scott Westerfeld
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. - Scott Westerfeld
Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates. - Scott Westerfeld
Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing. - Scott Westerfeld
The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side. - Scott Westerfeld
I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth. - Scott Westerfeld
What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful. - Scott Westerfeld
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. - Scott Westerfeld
We don't always get to choose what we love. - Scott Westerfeld
It’s amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing. - Scott Westerfeld
It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else. - Scott Westerfeld
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. - Scott Westerfeld
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. - Scott Westerfeld
Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee. - Scott Westerfeld
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. - Scott Westerfeld