Extras Quotes

“You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

“I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.”
― Scott Westerfield, Extras

“Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing
nothing.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

“Let me get this stright, Aya-Chan. You want me, a person who can't lie, to lie about the fact that I can't lie?"
-Frizz mizuno”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

“Why are you still wearing...?" Aya began. "Oh, that's not smart plastic? You're really an ugly?"
David rolled his eyes and Shay said quietly, "David's never had any surge at all. But I wouldn't use the word ugly...Tally might eat you.”
― 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

“Come on, it's almost midnight. Let's go watch them cut the cake.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

“Even mocking people helped their face stats. In the reputation economy, the only real way to hurt anyone was to ignore them completely. And it was pretty hard to ignore someone who made your blood boil.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

“Dying is one of those things that can’t be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

“Where did you get that idea for a nose?
- Frizz Mizuno”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

“Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

“If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

“You look beautiful - David”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

“Okay... That's still blind-making.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

“And here's what I realized: You Sly Girls don't cry when you watch the big-face parties on the feeds, just because you weren't invited. You don't stay friends with people you hate, just to bump your face rank. And even though nobody knows what you're doing out here, you don't feel invisible at all. Do you?

No one answered, but they were listening.

Fame is radically stupid, that's all. So I want to try something else.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

“My name’s Tally Youngblood,” she said. “Sorry to disturb you, but this is a special circumstance.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

“Once you’d told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

“The wisdom of the crowd, Aya. If a million people look at a puzzle, chances are that one of them knows the answer. Or maybe ten people each know one piece, and that’s enough to put it all together.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

“Run and hide. We're on our way.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

“A liberdade costuma destruir as coisas, sabe.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

“Worse, it was the ultimate way to turn people into extras—sitting all day performing the same task again and again, each worker a minuscule part of the whole machine. Anonymous and invisible.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

“Instead of making things only when people needed them, like holes in the wall did, Rusty factories had churned out vast quantities of stuff—the whole world in a giant competition to use up resources as quickly as possible.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. —Othello (Iago, Act II, scene iii)”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

“He’d borrowed one of their father’s old formal jackets: black spider silk and real bamboo buttons. He didn’t look half bad.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

“Gods are so last year,”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

“In the upper right corner, Gamma Matsui was kicking a new tech religion. Some history clique had applied averaging software to the world’s great spiritual books, then programmed it to spit out godlike decrees. For some reason, the software had told them not to eat pigs. “Who would do that in the first place?” Aya asked.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

“David’s never had any surge at all. But I wouldn’t use the word ugly—Tally might eat you.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

“Lurking behind every chance to be made whole by fame is the axman of further dismemberment. —Leo Braudy, The Frenzy of Renown”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

“Maybe it’s like the Youngblood cults say: Being crim can change the world.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras

“If a tree falls and nobody’s watching, then it doesn’t make a sound,”
― Scott Westerfeld, Extras