"The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side."
— Scott Westerfeld

"What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful."
— Scott Westerfeld

"You see, freedom has a way of destroying things."
— Scott Westerfeld (Extras)

"I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood"
— Scott Westerfeld (Specials)

"Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was."
— Scott Westerfeld (The Uglies Trilogy)

"I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun. "
— Scott Westerfeld

"Which was worse: a friend with brain damage, or one who despised you?"
— Scott Westerfeld

""You'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 (Uglies)

" 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"
— Scott Westerfeld (Specials)

"Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart."
— Scott Westerfeld (So Yesterday)

"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 (So Yesterday)

"Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.""
— Scott Westerfeld (Uglies)

"And over all those sleepy weeks, the dream always ended the same way, with the dragon coming for the princess saying the same words every time....
"Face it, Tally-wa, you're Special.""
— Scott Westerfeld (Pretties)

"Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.

-Tally"
— Scott Westerfeld (Uglies)

"you dont see me, now you do, but only if i want you to"
— Scott Westerfeld

"I spilled more times than a glass of milk on a roller coaster."
— Scott Westerfeld (Uglies)

"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. Otherwise, you might as well be living on a reservation, worshipping a bunch of bogus gods."
— Scott Westerfeld (Pretties)

"As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a way that felt like choosing but was actually the dance of little gears--neurons and hormones bubbling up into decisions like clockwork. You don't use your body; it uses you."
— Scott Westerfeld (Peeps)

"I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth. "
— Scott Westerfeld

"Ring around the rosie.
A pocket full of posie.
Ashes ashes, we all fall down.
Some people say that this poem is about the Black Death, the fourteenth-century plague that killed 100-million people...
Sadly, though, most experts think this is nonsense...
How can I be so sure about this rhyme when all the experts disagree?
Because I ate the kid who made it up."
— Scott Westerfeld (The Last Days)

"Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain—Maddy glanced at Tally—and selfish. It only takes a twist to lock in that part of their personalities. He always thought that some people could think their way out of it."
— Scott Westerfeld (Uglies)

"Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice."
— Scott Westerfeld

"When she awoke, the world was on fire."
— Scott Westerfeld (Uglies)

"Haven't you ever known someone rejected by a lover, who, consumed by rage and jealousy, never lets go? They look on from a distance, unseen but boiling inside. The emotion never seems to tire, this hatred mixed with intense obsession, even with a kind of twisted love."
— Scott Westerfeld (Peeps)

"It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing."
— Scott Westerfeld (Peeps)

"You are so... 11:59"
— Scott Westerfeld (The Secret Hour)

"Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same."
— Scott Westerfeld (Uglies)

""Come on, it's almost midnight. Let's go watch them cut the cake.""
— Scott Westerfeld (Extras)

"I know what it’s like to be manipulated, Aya-la. And I know what it’s like to be in danger. While your city was building you mansions to live in, my friends and I have been protecting this planet. We’ve spilled more blood than you have flowing in your veins. So don’t try to make me feel guilty!
-Tally Youngblood, Extras "
— Scott Westerfeld (Extras)

"You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed, with all the cities coming awake at last. Together, you're more than enough to change the world without us. So from now on, David and I are here to stand in your way. You see, freedom has a way of destroying things."
— Scott Westerfeld

"Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority?"
— Scott Westerfeld (Specials)

"Listen, you bubblehead-up-until-five-minutes-ago..."
— Scott Westerfeld (Specials)

"Never bored on a hoverboard."
— Scott Westerfeld

"The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit."
— Scott Westerfeld (Uglies)

"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 (The Last Days)

""your not alone, Tally. Don't pretend you are""
— Scott Westerfeld (Specials)

"Her only way home was to betray her friend."
— Scott Westerfeld (Uglies)

""Now,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 (Uglies)

""David lowered his voice. 'Maybe they didn t want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There s always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that s left is some story in a history class.'" "
— Scott Westerfeld (Uglies)

"With 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 (Pretties)

"'And you know, these things don't last forever.'

'I know, Mandy. Nothing does.'

'That's the spirit.'"
— Scott Westerfeld (So Yesterday)

"Im Tally Youngblood.Make me pretty."
— Scott Westerfeld (Uglies)

"The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind."
— Scott Westerfeld (Uglies)

"they walked with a pedatory grace.... one of them ripped off their hood and said, "my name is Tally Youngblood and is a special circumstance"...."
— Scott Westerfeld

"Having a brain hurt so much sometimes."
— Scott Westerfeld (Specials)

"That shay was in possesion of handgranades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become."
— Scott Westerfeld (Specials)

"Frighteningly Beautiful, Dangerously Strong, Breathtakingly Fast.
"Face it Tally-wa you're special...""
— Scott Westerfeld (The Uglies Trilogy)

""I can pick up the city feeds on my antenna. It said they were going to change you all. Turn you into something less dangerous. Are you still...?"
She gazed at him. "What do you think, David?"
He peered into her eyes for a long moment, then sighed and shook his head. "You just look like Tally to me."
She looked down, her vision blurring.
"What's the matter?"
"Nothing, David." She shook her head. "You just took on five million years of evolution again."
"I what? Did I say something wrong?"
"No." She smiled. "You said something right."
"
— Scott Westerfeld (Specials)

"Are you saying that your fat-ass cat has turned me into a vampire?

Um, maybe?"
— Scott Westerfeld (Peeps)

""I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have to." --Tally Youngblood"
— Scott Westerfeld (Specials)