“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.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Afterworlds
“Being an author sucks, doesn't it? It's like telling a joke and nobody laughs for two years.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Afterworlds
“Real life doesn’t have many happy endings. Why shouldn’t books make up the difference?”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Afterworlds
“Hiding from the truth was worse than being lied to.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Afterworlds
“You don't know what it's like, when your best friend disappears.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Afterworlds
“You don't think happy endings are stupid anymore?"
"Your question is irrelevant," Imogen said. "This isn't the end.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Afterworlds
“The best way to know a city is to eat it.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Afterworlds
“Just remember, the things we write, they aren't always really us.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Afterworlds
“First love is amazing and wonderful, but a kind of panic underlies it, a sense of not knowing what you're doing.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Afterworlds
“Being fathomed was even better than being flattered, it turned out.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Afterworlds
“Sleep is a little slice of death.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Afterworlds
“In a novel you always knew the moment when something Happened, when someone Changed. But real life was full of gradual, piecemeal, continuous transformation. It was full of accidents and undefineables, and things that just happened on their own. The only certainty was 'It's complicated,' whether or not unicorns tolerated your touch.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Afterworlds
“...but loving had left her skinless.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Afterworlds
“The universe is math on fire.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Afterworlds
“Blurbs don’t work anymore!” was another. “You should make sure that the quotable lines of dialogue in your book never exceed a hundred and forty characters!” seemed at best debatable.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Afterworlds
“For me, writing's the only thing that's always real. I've never regretted a day I wrote a good scene, whatever else I screwed up that day. That's what's fucking real.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Afterworlds
“Adulation is like rain. You can only get so wet.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Afterworlds
“Nice concept. But is it a trilogy or a tweet?" "I can't tell any more.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Afterworlds
“The scent of a faraway place lay on my skin.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Afterworlds
“Looking for a thousand years is worth it, if in the end you find what you need.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Afterworlds
“Mindy had explained that a lot of things had ghosts, not just people. Animals, machines, even things as vast as a paved-over forest or as humble as the smell of good cooking could leave traces of themselves behind. The world was haunted by the past.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Afterworlds
“Maybe that was the point of truth-you could erase it all you wanted, and it was there was to be discovered again.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Afterworlds
“Maybe that was the point of truth--you could erase it all you wanted, and it was there to be discovered again”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Afterworlds
“More lies, but maybe lies were better than the truth.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Afterworlds
“It’s just . . . it feels like someone’s going to ask me for ID. Like, writer ID.” The”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Afterworlds
“Happy endings are popular. Do you not watch movies?"
"Yeah, but that's movies," Darcy groaned. "Books are above all that!”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Afterworlds
“the things we write, they aren’t always really us.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Afterworlds
“I'm here to learn. And what you have taught me is to avoid love as long as possible.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Afterworlds
“The opening chapter was the book's unique selling point, the singular idea that had carried Darcy through last November, and Coleman had just come up with it off the top of his head.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Afterworlds
“She would find her answers in the words she wrote, in the stories she told, not by asking for permission.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Afterworlds
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“common soldier must fear his officer more than the enemy’: Frederick the Great)”
― John Keegan, quote from The Face Of Battle: A Study Of Agincourt, Waterloo And The Somme
“question that remained now was whether he would be alive to perform the day’s final salaat. That was in Allah’s”
― Tom Clancy, quote from Dead or Alive
“Malicious men may die, but malice never.”
― Molière, quote from Tartuffe
“In Fleury’s day, however, the grass was cut and the graves well cared for. Besides, as you might expect, he was fond of graveyards; he enjoyed brooding in them and letting his heart respond to the abbreviated biographies he found engraved in their stones . . . so eloquent, so succinct! All the same, once he had spent an hour or two pondering by his mother’s grave he decided to call it a day because, after all, one does not want to overdo the lurking in graveyards. This decision was not a very sudden one. From the age of sixteen when he had first become interested in books, much to the distress of his father, he had paid little heed to physical and sporting matters. He had been of a melancholy and listless cast of mind, the victim of the beauty and sadness of the universe. In the course of the last two or three years, however, he had noticed that his sombre and tubercular manner was no longer having quite the effect it had once had, particularly on young ladies. They no longer found his pallor so interesting, they tended to become impatient with his melancholy. The effect, or lack of it, that you have on the opposite sex is important because it tells you whether or not you are in touch with the spirit of the times, of which the opposite sex is invariably the custodian. The truth was that the tide of sensitivity to beauty, of gentleness and melancholy, had gradually ebbed leaving Fleury floundering on a sandbank. Young ladies these days were more interested in the qualities of Tennyson’s “great, broad-shouldered, genial Englishman” than they were in pallid poets, as Fleury was dimly beginning to perceive. Louise Dunstaple’s preference for romping with jolly officers which had dismayed him on the day of the picnic had by no means been the first rebuff of this kind. Even Miriam sometimes asked him aloud why he was looking “hangdog” when once she would have remained silent, thinking “soulful”. All”
― J.G. Farrell, quote from The Siege of Krishnapur
“I could not fill those expectations. I’ve never been presented to the queen,” Hamilton said. “Because we live in America and don’t have a queen.”
― Jen Turano, quote from A Change of Fortune
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