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Have a little faith in me, Volger." "I have great faith, tempered with vast annoyance.

Scott Westerfeld

Littles, Have A Little Faith, Annoyance

Scott Westerfeld, Keith Thompson (2012). “Goliath”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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Maybe that was the price of loving someone: You lost your grasp of where they ended and you began.

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Loving Someone, Lost

Scott Westerfeld (2014). “Afterworlds”, p.316, Simon and Schuster

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Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.

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Trouble, Ends, Said

Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Uglies”, p.406, Simon and Schuster

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I used to be a pre-industrial writer: thousands of words in a spurt and then a few days off. But as I get older, I've switched to a mode best described as 'slow and steady wins the race.' Basically, I write during the same four hours every day, after breakfast and the all-important coffee, generally in the same room and wearing the same pajamas.

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Coffee, Writing, Winning

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That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both.

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Beautiful, Dangerous

Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Uglies”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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Laughter, Work, Expression

Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Uglies”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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I love you all. But it's time to say good-bye, for now. be careful with the world, or the next time we meet, it might get ugly. -Tally Youngblood

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Love You, Bye, World

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So, there was this beautiful princess. She was locked in a high tower(...)She was stuck up there(...)So the only thing was to jump.

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Beautiful, Princess, Towers

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Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry.

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Eye, Long, Burning

Scott Westerfeld (2008). “Specials”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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They walked with a pedatory grace.... one of them ripped off their hood and said, "my name is Tally Youngblood and is a special circumstance".

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Names, Grace, Special

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Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

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Giving, Dollars, Clean

Scott Westerfeld (2007). “The Last Days”, p.62, Penguin

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I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood

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Hurt, Want, Ifs

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

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Ideas, Hands, Shoes

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Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.

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Cities, Fool

Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Uglies”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.

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Sheep, People, Majority

Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Uglies”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you're-in-trouble smile.

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Trouble, Middle, Happy Smile

Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Pretties”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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Dare to ask, "Where is my novel too simple?"

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Writing, Simple, Dare

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A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.

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Water, Speech, Geek

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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.

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Summer, Cat, Color

Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Goliath”, p.549, Simon and Schuster

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Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.

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Past, Men, Dinner Plates

Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Leviathan”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.

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Stories, World, Forests

Scott Westerfeld (2008). “Pretties”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I've also learned to making big-scale design decisions early.

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Character, Illustration, Design

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I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.

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College, Class, Training

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Which was worse: a friend with brain damage, or one who despised you?

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Brain, Damage, Despised

Scott Westerfeld (2013). “Mind-Rain: Your Favorite Authors on Scott Westerfeld's Uglies Series”, p.46, BenBella Books, Inc.

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As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a way that felt like choosing but was actually the dance of little gears--neurons and hormones bubbling up into decisions like clockwork. You don't use your body; it uses you.

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Decision, Brain, Molecules

Scott Westerfeld (2006). “Peeps”, p.6, Penguin

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