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

"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)

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

"Never bored on a hoverboard."
— Scott Westerfeld

"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)

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

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

"...History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep. Before the operation, there were wars and mass hatred and clear-cutting. Whatever these lesions make us, it isn't a far cry from the way humanity was in the Rusty era. These days we're just a bit...easier to manage.


Tally shivered again, but not from the cold. It was hard to think of the Rusties as actual people, rather than as just an idiotic, dangerous, and sometimes comic force of history. But there were human beings down there, whatever was left of them after a couple hundred years, still sitting their blackened cars, as if still trying to escape their fate....
..."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 history class."...


...And that was her city in a nutshell, Tally realized. Nothing left to itself. Everything turned into a bribe, a warning, or a lesson....

...Sometimes Tally felt she could almost accept brain damage if it meant a life without reconstituted noodles. "
— Scott Westerfeld (Uglies)

"Nature,at least,didn't need an operation to be beautiful.It just was."
— Scott Westerfeld Uglies Tally