Scott Westerfeld
Scott Westerfeld
Scott David Westerfeldis an American writer of young adult fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth5 May 1963
CityDallas, TX
CountryUnited States of America
fall balloons cases
So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?' -- Tally to Peris
cutting cake midnight
Come on, it's almost midnight. Let's go watch them cut the cake.
party kids eye
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.
pain fire waiting
Dess shook her head. "Before he walked off, Rex said for you to wait. He said it's totally important you don't touch Angie until he comes back. and he said that if you were a pain about it, I get to hit you with that." She pointed to where the darkling had flung Flabbergasted Supernumerary Mathematician, its tip blackened by ichor and fire. "So, go ahead.
confusion together ugly
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.
doing-nothing sometimes hardest
Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing nothing.
barbie-dolls may normal
We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls.
lace building climbs
Dude, I just watched you climb up a f*cking building!-Lace
lying want facts
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
coffee kissing
Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee. -Jonathan
oklahoma textbooks endangered-species
Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma.
cat voice wow
Wow," came a familiar voice, "Hypochondriac killed the cat." -Dess
father selfish thinking
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.
thinking shovels holes
I’m not against thinking; I’m only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed.