Scott Westerfeld

The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

It__ amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.

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.

...humanity is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world.

...I want those perfect eyes and lips, and for everyone to look at me and gasp. And for everyone who sees me to think Who's that? and want to get to know me, and listen to what I say.""I'd rather have something to say.

But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.

You look beautiful - David

And the worst thing was, there were no mirrors out there in the wild, so the princess was left wondering whether she in fact was still beautiful... or if the fall had changed the story completely.

Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.

What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.

And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag.

I spilled more times than a glass of milk on a roller coaster.

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.

You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.

No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.

Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city.""There are no limits in war," Volger said, still staring out the window.