Uglies Quotes

“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“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.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“When she awoke, the world was on fire.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

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

“We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“Nature, at least, didn’t need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“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

“I spilled more times than a glass of milk on a roller coaster.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“Her only way home was to betray her friend.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“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

“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

“It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“Tally sighed, tipping her feet again to follow. "Maybe that's because they have better stuff to do than kid tricks. Maybe partying in town is better than hanging out in a bunch of old ruins."
Shay's eyes flashed. "Or maybe when they do the operation-when they grind and stretch your bones to the right shape, peel off your face and rub all your skin away, and stick in plastic cheekbones so you look like everyone else-maybe after going through all that you just aren't very interesting anymore.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“Yes. What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“Didn't this beat everything? A pretty and an ugly taking a stroll together. The warden came closer, confusion all over his middle-pretty face.
Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end.
"I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "Make me pretty.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. Of course, Tally thought, you’d have to feed your cat only salmon-flavored cat food for a while, to get the pinks right.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“All that glitters is not hovery.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Rodrigo Corral, Uglies

“However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally's choice to stay.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. Tally Youngblood was a weed. And, unlike the orchids, she wasn't even a pretty one.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“Tally-When you looked around at everyone else how come you didn’t notice they were brain damaged?

Az - We didn’t have much to compare our fellow citizens with. Only a few colleagues who seemed different from most people, more engaged, but that was hardly a surprise.
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 how humanity was in the rusty era. These days we’re just a bit easier to manage.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies