“ 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”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Specials
“I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Specials
“Having a brain hurt so much sometimes.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Specials
“It didn't matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Specials
“That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Specials
“your not alone, Tally. Don't pretend you are”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Specials
“I can pick up the city feeds on my antenna. It said they were going to change you all. Turn you into something less dangerous. Are you still...?"
She gazed at him. "What do you think, David?"
He peered into her eyes for a long moment, then sighed and shook his head. "You just look like Tally to me."
She looked down, her vision blurring.
What's the matter?"
Nothing, David." She shook her head. "You just took on five million years of evolution again."
I what? Did I say something wrong?"
No." She smiled. "You said something right.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Specials
“Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority?”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Specials
“Be careful with the world , or the next time we meet, it might get ugly.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Specials
“It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Specials
“you just took on five million years of evolution again”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Specials
“The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Specials
“She carried a knife inside of herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her thoughts strayed from the splendor of the wild.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Specials
“So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?' -- Tally to Peris”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Specials
“Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Specials
“That was the whole point of being special: You existed to make sure everyone else behaved, but that didn't mean YOU had to.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Specials
“What about a hoverboard?"
"It's waiting on the roof, of course." Dr. Cable snorted. "What is it about you miscreants and those things?”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Specials
“I'm not sure what I am anymore... Sometimes I think I'm nothing but what other people have done to me―a big collection of brainwashing, surgeries, and cures... That, and all the mistakes I've made. All the people I've disappointed.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Specials
“you're infamous, Tally. Everyone's terrified of you. The new system may have made the other cities nervous, but they seem to think my little gang of psychotic sixteen-year-olds is worse" - Cable to Tally”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Specials
“That was one problem with dramatic exits: Sometimes they wound up making you look like a bubblehead.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Specials
“She'd never have to cut herself again. She carries a knife inside herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her thoughts strayed.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Specials
“By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower. —Rabindranath Tagore, “Stray Birds”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Specials
“Controlling someone by changing their brain is like trying to stop a hovercar by digging a ditch. If they think hard enough, they can fly right over.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Specials
“From now on, no one rewires my mind but me.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Specials
“Without lesions making everyone agreeable, society was left roiling in a constant battle of words, images, and ideas. All around her Tally felt the city seething, all those unfettered minds bouncing their opinions off each other, like something ready to explode.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Specials
“I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Specials
“But having a brain hurt so much sometimes.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Specials
Scott Westerfeld
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“How did you find out?” he asked.
I dropped the coat I’d been holding. “How do you think? She told me. She couldn’t wait to tell me.”
He sighed and sat on the arm of my couch and stared into space.
“That’s it? You have nothing else to say?” I asked.
“I’m sorry. God, I’m really sorry. I didn’t mean for you to find out like this.”
“Were you ever going to tell me?”
“Yeah...of course.”
His voice was so sweet and so gentle that it momentarily defused the anger that wanted to explode out of me. I stared at him, looking hard into those amber brown eyes. “She said...she said you didn’t drink, but you did, right? That’s what happened?” I sounded like I was Kendall’s age and suspected I wore the pleading expression Yasmine had given Jerome.
Seth’s face stayed expressionless. “No, Thetis. I wasn’t drunk. I didn’t drink at all.”
I sank down into the arm chair opposite him. “Then…then…what happened?”
It took a while for him to get the story out. I could see the two warring halves within him: the one that wanted to be open and the one that hated to tell me things I wouldn’t like. “I was so upset after what happened with us. I was actually on the verge of calling that guy…what’s his name? Niphon. I couldn’t stand it—I wanted to fix things between us. But just before I did, I ran into Maddie. I was so…I don’t know. Just confused. Distraught. She asked me to get food, and before I knew it, I’d accepted.” He raked a hand through his hair, neutral expression turning confused and frustrated. “And being with her…she was just so nice. Sweet. Easy to talk to. And after leaving things off physically with you, I’d been kind of…um…”
“Aroused? Horny? Lust-filled?”
He grimaced. “Something like that. But, I don’t know. There was more to it than just that.”
The tape in my mind rewound. “Did you say you were going to call Niphon?”
“Yeah. We’d talked at poker…and then he called me once. Said if I ever wanted…he could make me a deal. I thought it was crazy at the time, but after I left you that night…I don’t know. It just made me wonder if maybe it was worth it to live the life I wanted and make it so you wouldn’t have to worry so much.”
“Maddie coming along was a blessing then,” I muttered. Christ. Seth had seriously considered selling his soul. I really needed to deal with Niphon. He hadn’t listened to me when I’d told him to leave Seth alone. I wanted to rip the imp’s throat out, but my revenge would have to wait. I took a deep breath.
“Well,” I told Seth. “That’s that. I can’t say I like it…but, well…it’s over.”
He tilted his head curiously. “What do you mean?”
“This. This Maddie thing. You finally had a fling. We’ve always agreed you could, right? I mean, it’s not fair for me to be the only one who gets some. Now we can move on.”
A long silence fell. Aubrey jumped up beside me and rubbed her head against my arm. I ran a hand over her soft fur while I waited for Seth’s response.
“Georgina,” he said at last. “You know…I’ve told you…well. I don’t really have flings.”
My hand froze on Aubrey’s back. “What are you saying?”
“I…don’t have flings.”
“Are you saying you want to start something with her?”
He looked miserable. “I don’t know.”
― Richelle Mead, quote from Succubus Dreams
“You’ll have sweet dreams?” he asked quietly and sounding like he cared, a lot.
God but I loved this man.
I felt my mouth smile and I pressed even closer.
“I’m a good girl, I always do what I’m told.”
His hand left my hair so both his arms could wrap tight around me.
“Love you, Ace,” he murmured and my stomach melted.
He said it. Right out.
He said it.
“Love you too, Captain.”
― Kristen Ashley, quote from Sweet Dreams
“There was something about Christmas Eve, they both felt, that demanded company; one needed somebody to whisper to, during the warm beautiful dream-taut moments between hanging the empty stocking at the end of the bed, and dropping into the cosy oblivion that would flower into the marvel of Christmas morning.”
― Susan Cooper, quote from The Dark Is Rising
“Kill her for me," she said in that whiny little-girl voice.
Diego took a step toward me, wearing an expression that told me he was only too happy to oblige his lady love.
"Oh, what?" I said. I wasn't even scared. I didn't care anymore. The numbness in my heart had pretty much taken over my whole body. "You always do what she tells you? You know, we have a word for that now. It's called being whipped.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Darkest Hour
“Humans. Sometimes they make chimps look smart.”
― Katherine Applegate, quote from The One and Only Ivan
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