Scott Westerfeld World Quotations

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.

Maybe 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.

I love you all. But it's time to say good-bye, for now. be careful with the world, or the next time we meet, it might get ugly. -Tally Youngblood

The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.

In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly.

We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in...

humanity is a cancer on the body of the world

When she awoke, the world was on fire.