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5216847	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
451fbc3	that was what kept the world interesting...reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.		Scott Westerfeld
aef50f2	And you've actually watched it yourself?' I asked. 'Willingly?' Sure. I had to see it, you know? Besides we should be safe. Only one in twenty viewers actually had a bad reaction. And it was mostly kids who were affected. I mean younger than you guys. I think the average age was about ten.' That made me feel somewhat better. But that was a kid's show,' said Jen. 'Maybe it affects everyone, but not that many adults were watching.' That made ..	so-yesterday scott-westerfeld hunter pokemon	Scott Westerfeld
d692344	But they're already singing our praises!" "They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything."	humor enthusiasm	Scott Westerfeld
9ff65dd	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
d34d391	Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look," she said. "No," David said. "It changes the way you think."		Scott Westerfeld
613d0ee	Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.		Scott Westerfeld
ec2e16d	She wasn't here to gawk. She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission.		Scott Westerfeld
befebe5	Real life doesn't have many happy endings. Why shouldn't books make up the difference?		Scott Westerfeld
4b54d3a	If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.		Scott Westerfeld
da790d7	The world rests upon a turtle, which itself stands on the back of an elephant!" Alek tried not to laugh. "Then what does the elephant stand on, madam?" "Don't try to be clever, young man." She narrowed her eyes. "It's elephants all the way down!"		Scott Westerfeld
1414cc6	Hiding from the truth was worse than being lied to.		Scott Westerfeld
4564fb7	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."		Scott Westerfeld
5e7016a	Fine. Seer knows best, even if he is nuts. Maybe I can stand to wait a few more... whoa. What the hell happened to my car? -Melissa		Scott Westerfeld
027e712	You and David could both be right. Maybe human beings are programmed ... to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad, Tally. Besides, we had a whole city of pretties to choose from, and we chose each other."-Zane"		Scott Westerfeld
87eb7fa	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
febc85c	It's just the way things are." she shrugged. "It's no one's fault." "Or everyone's."		Scott Westerfeld
b0793e3	So, there was this beautiful princess. She was locked in a high tower, one whose smart walls had cleaver holes in them that could give her anything: food, a clique of fantastic friends, wonderful clothes. And, best of all, there was this mirror on the wall, so that the princess could look at her beautiful self all day long. The only problem with the tower was that there way no way out. The builders had forgotten to put in an elevator, or ..		Scott Westerfeld
c19332e	The physical beauty...also cleared her mind of worries. Every day seemed to change the mountain, the sky, and the surrounding valleys, making them spectacular in a completely new way. Nature, at least, didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.	the-uglies tally tally-youngblood	Scott Westerfeld
615c32a	I'm Tally Youngblood. Make me pretty." -Tally Youngblood" --		Scott Westerfeld
bf8f139	No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.	war leviathan	Scott Westerfeld
04cb511	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 everybody else- maybe after going through all that you just aren't very interesting anymore. -Shay, Uglies		Scott Westerfeld
c7172d4	Dude, I just watched you climb up a f*cking building!-Lace	scott westerfeld peeps lace last-days	Scott Westerfeld
31a615c	You don't know what it's like, when your best friend disappears.	sadness friendship best-friends	Scott Westerfeld
ccac155	He and I have this... personality conflict. Namely, I think he should get a new one.		Scott Westerfeld
bf1427f	Fate didn't care a squick about what anybody was to do.		Scott Westerfeld
13dcc89	You fiddle lucker!' she cried.	humor cussing	Scott Westerfeld
66e4d1b	The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people, and everyone was incredibly stupid. And ugly.	humor rusty ruins	Scott Westerfeld
c9c5e9c	She couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no doubt few and far between. (...), that made stories a valuable commodity, and it probably wasn't very often that a stranger dropped in from the sky.	storytelling	Scott Westerfeld
58a1fa8	You look beautiful - David	nature	Scott Westerfeld
4a355d1	You're splitting?" "No sh*it, Sherlock."	plitting sherlock scott-westerfeld	Scott Westerfeld
90e3dad	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.	humanity religion nature-of-human spirits	Scott Westerfeld
e66338d	The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. --Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (part 3, Pretties)		Scott Westerfeld
b3a8ff5	Volger looked out across the glacier, his hands deep in his pockets. "May I be frank?" Alek laughed. "Feel free to put aside your usual tact." "I shall," Volger said. "When your father decided to marry Sophie, I was one of those who tried to talk him out of it." "So I have your dismal powers of persuasion to thank for my existence." "You're very welcome."		Scott Westerfeld
72945d9	You know,' I called, 'you're the one that's going to have to explain to Max how you got your blender back.' I'll tell him I astral-projected. Butt-head.	scott-westerfeld	Scott Westerfeld
8c52df1	The best way to know a city is to eat it.	travel friends home food	Scott Westerfeld
cb87284	Boys had something else...a sort of swagger about them.		Scott Westerfeld
8dd4757	You don't think happy endings are stupid anymore?" "Your question is irrelevant," Imogen said. "This isn't the end."		Scott Westerfeld
80fed03	Once we turn, it's new pretty, middle pretty, late pretty." Shay dropped her arms, and her board stopped drifting. "Then dead pretty."		Scott Westerfeld
03656a9	Just remember, the things we write, they aren't always really us.		Scott Westerfeld
58a2dc1	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
0accf6a	He chuckled, shaking his head. "Man, you hunters. I break a pencil and there's hell to pay." "I can see how that's deeply unfair, Chip. Especially if that pencil should try to kill you with it teeth and claws, or launch its brood of a thousand deadly paper clips against you."	paper-clips requisiting pens	Scott Westerfeld
0c06385	Maybe human beings programmed...to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad...		Scott Westerfeld
8530915	Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into grazing land. Whole rain forests had been consumed, reduced from millions of interlocking species to a bunch of cows eating grass, a vast web of life traded for cheap hamburgers. "Look, we're not clear-cutting. All we're doing is pulling out the garbage that the Rusties left behend," Da..	david rusties uglies	Scott Westerfeld

5216847

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

451fbc3

that was what kept the world interesting...reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.

Scott Westerfeld

aef50f2

And you've actually watched it yourself?' I asked. 'Willingly?' Sure. I had to see it, you know? Besides we should be safe. Only one in twenty viewers actually had a bad reaction. And it was mostly kids who were affected. I mean younger than you guys. I think the average age was about ten.' That made me feel somewhat better. But that was a kid's show,' said Jen. 'Maybe it affects everyone, but not that many adults were watching.' That made ..

so-yesterday scott-westerfeld hunter pokemon

Scott Westerfeld

d692344

But they're already singing our praises!" "They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything."

humor enthusiasm

Scott Westerfeld

9ff65dd

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

d34d391

Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look," she said. "No," David said. "It changes the way you think."

Scott Westerfeld

613d0ee

Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.

Scott Westerfeld

ec2e16d

She wasn't here to gawk. She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission.

Scott Westerfeld

befebe5

Real life doesn't have many happy endings. Why shouldn't books make up the difference?

Scott Westerfeld

4b54d3a

If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.

Scott Westerfeld

da790d7

The world rests upon a turtle, which itself stands on the back of an elephant!" Alek tried not to laugh. "Then what does the elephant stand on, madam?" "Don't try to be clever, young man." She narrowed her eyes. "It's elephants all the way down!"

Scott Westerfeld

1414cc6

Hiding from the truth was worse than being lied to.

Scott Westerfeld

4564fb7

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."

Scott Westerfeld

5e7016a

Fine. Seer knows best, even if he is nuts. Maybe I can stand to wait a few more... whoa. What the hell happened to my car? -Melissa

Scott Westerfeld

027e712

You and David could both be right. Maybe human beings are programmed ... to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad, Tally. Besides, we had a whole city of pretties to choose from, and we chose each other."-Zane"

Scott Westerfeld

87eb7fa

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

febc85c

It's just the way things are." she shrugged. "It's no one's fault." "Or everyone's."

Scott Westerfeld

b0793e3

So, there was this beautiful princess. She was locked in a high tower, one whose smart walls had cleaver holes in them that could give her anything: food, a clique of fantastic friends, wonderful clothes. And, best of all, there was this mirror on the wall, so that the princess could look at her beautiful self all day long. The only problem with the tower was that there way no way out. The builders had forgotten to put in an elevator, or ..

Scott Westerfeld

c19332e

The physical beauty...also cleared her mind of worries. Every day seemed to change the mountain, the sky, and the surrounding valleys, making them spectacular in a completely new way. Nature, at least, didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.

the-uglies tally tally-youngblood

Scott Westerfeld

615c32a

I'm Tally Youngblood. Make me pretty." -Tally Youngblood" --

Scott Westerfeld

bf8f139

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

war leviathan

Scott Westerfeld

04cb511

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 everybody else- maybe after going through all that you just aren't very interesting anymore. -Shay, Uglies

Scott Westerfeld

c7172d4

Dude, I just watched you climb up a f*cking building!-Lace

scott westerfeld peeps lace last-days

Scott Westerfeld

31a615c

You don't know what it's like, when your best friend disappears.

sadness friendship best-friends

Scott Westerfeld

ccac155

He and I have this... personality conflict. Namely, I think he should get a new one.

Scott Westerfeld

bf1427f

Fate didn't care a squick about what anybody was to do.

Scott Westerfeld

13dcc89

You fiddle lucker!' she cried.

humor cussing

Scott Westerfeld

66e4d1b

The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people, and everyone was incredibly stupid. And ugly.

humor rusty ruins

Scott Westerfeld

c9c5e9c

She couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no doubt few and far between. (...), that made stories a valuable commodity, and it probably wasn't very often that a stranger dropped in from the sky.

storytelling

Scott Westerfeld

58a1fa8

You look beautiful - David

nature

Scott Westerfeld

4a355d1

You're splitting?" "No sh*it, Sherlock."

plitting sherlock scott-westerfeld

Scott Westerfeld

90e3dad

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.

humanity religion nature-of-human spirits

Scott Westerfeld

e66338d

The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. --Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (part 3, Pretties)

Scott Westerfeld

b3a8ff5

Volger looked out across the glacier, his hands deep in his pockets. "May I be frank?" Alek laughed. "Feel free to put aside your usual tact." "I shall," Volger said. "When your father decided to marry Sophie, I was one of those who tried to talk him out of it." "So I have your dismal powers of persuasion to thank for my existence." "You're very welcome."

Scott Westerfeld

72945d9

You know,' I called, 'you're the one that's going to have to explain to Max how you got your blender back.' I'll tell him I astral-projected. Butt-head.

scott-westerfeld

Scott Westerfeld

8c52df1

The best way to know a city is to eat it.

travel friends home food

Scott Westerfeld

cb87284

Boys had something else...a sort of swagger about them.

Scott Westerfeld

8dd4757

You don't think happy endings are stupid anymore?" "Your question is irrelevant," Imogen said. "This isn't the end."

Scott Westerfeld

80fed03

Once we turn, it's new pretty, middle pretty, late pretty." Shay dropped her arms, and her board stopped drifting. "Then dead pretty."

Scott Westerfeld

03656a9

Just remember, the things we write, they aren't always really us.

Scott Westerfeld

58a2dc1

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

0accf6a

He chuckled, shaking his head. "Man, you hunters. I break a pencil and there's hell to pay." "I can see how that's deeply unfair, Chip. Especially if that pencil should try to kill you with it teeth and claws, or launch its brood of a thousand deadly paper clips against you."

paper-clips requisiting pens

Scott Westerfeld

0c06385

Maybe human beings programmed...to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad...

Scott Westerfeld

8530915

Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into grazing land. Whole rain forests had been consumed, reduced from millions of interlocking species to a bunch of cows eating grass, a vast web of life traded for cheap hamburgers. "Look, we're not clear-cutting. All we're doing is pulling out the garbage that the Rusties left behend," Da..

david rusties uglies

Scott Westerfeld