Youngbloods Quotes

“You were the reason that I never became a monster. It was the only thing that kept me from turning into him—dreaming that I could one day be you.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Youngbloods

“She set the world on fire, so now she's worried about every random spark.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Youngbloods

“Guess it takes work, getting used to being happy.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Youngbloods

“All that time pretending to be Rafi, I knew exactly who I was supposed to be. But now there's nothing for me to fall back on, like I never had anything that was mine.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Youngbloods

“I wouldn't have it any other way.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Youngbloods

“How old are you anyway?”
“Almost twelve.”
“It’s called eleven.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Youngbloods

“When the AI knew it was going to die, maybe it wanted to be with you.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Youngbloods

“Exquisite chaos, thanks to you.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Youngbloods

“You were stronger together, two edges of the same knife, dancing together in the rain.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Youngbloods

“But you never really die until the last person who remembers you is buried.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Youngbloods

“She pretends to serve the truth, but she doesn't want the world to see. She whispers a different secret in every ear.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Youngbloods

“Let it change you. Let the blood soak in.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Youngbloods

“It took losing him to see myself. Tears make for clear eyes.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Youngbloods

“This is what I became after losing Seanan. This moment of annihilation, this blood. This is what you made me.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Youngbloods

“There's more than one way to save the world.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Youngbloods

“When it comes to Shreve, my suspicions are always at a simmer. Your city murdered me with an earthquake machine, after all.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Youngbloods

“No surprise that out of a million brutalized people, one is dangerous enough to kill someone.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Youngbloods

“Which is why I had to disappear. The thought of the whole world watching me was too much.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Youngbloods

“There's an old theory about artificial intelligence, we shouldn't let it get to know us too well.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Youngbloods

“The city AIs love normal. They were fine with a tyrant in Shreve, until he started generating chaos. They could live with evil but not messiness.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Youngbloods

“The only real cure for humanity is ceaseless rebellion—enough people to knock down any system that goes bad.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Youngbloods

“When the global feeds start telling me someone's a villain—that they're to blame for all the trouble, even the earthquakes—part of me starts to wonder. Maybe it's a distraction from something deeper, something wrong with the system.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Youngbloods

“When you're Special, its easy to forget how fragile everyone else is. You have to pretend regular people are made of paper.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Youngbloods

“So did your sister betray you? Or did she outplay you?”
― Scott Westerfeld, Youngbloods

“And freedom has a way of destroying things.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Youngbloods