Frases de Scott Westerfeld

“Al hacerte perfecto, tu aspecto no es lo único que cambia —concluyó Tally.
—No —convino David—. También lo hace tu pensamiento.”

Uglies

“La naturaleza, al menos, no necesitaba de operaciones para ser bella.
Simplemente lo era.”

Uglies

“Todo el mundo estaba condicionado por el lugar donde nacía, confinado por sus propias creencias, pero al menos había que intentar que la mente se desarrollara más allá de dichos límites. De lo contrario, era como su uno viviera en una reserva, adorando a un puñado de falsos dioses.”

Uglies

“Me enloquecía que estuviera tan lejos, fuera del alcance de mi doliente piel. Pero también había algo intenso en la incorporeidad, como si la distancia amplificase nuestra conexión.”

“Una franja en la que se mezclaban el naranja y el amarillo prendía fuego al cielo,
espléndida e inesperada, tan espectacular como los fuegos artificiales, aunque
cambiaba a un ritmo majestuoso y apenas perceptible. Tally estaba descubriendo que
así era la naturaleza. Peligrosa o bella. O ambas cosas a la vez.”

Love Is Hell

“Dying is one of those things that can’t be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.”

Uglies

Scott Westerfeld: Frases en inglés

“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”

Scott Westerfeld libro Extras

Fuente: Extras

“Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.”

Scott Westerfeld libro Traición

Variante: Yes. What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.
Fuente: Uglies

“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”

Scott Westerfeld libro So Yesterday

Fuente: So Yesterday

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

Scott Westerfeld libro Extras

Fuente: Extras

“… humanity is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world.”

Scott Westerfeld libro Traición

Fuente: Uglies

“Sometimes you can’t choose what you love.”

Scott Westerfeld libro Perfección

Variante: humanity is a cancer on the body of the world
Fuente: Pretties

“… I want those perfect eyes and lips, and for everyone to look at me and gasp. And for everyone who sees me to think Who's that? and want to get to know me, and listen to what I say."
"I'd rather have something to say.”

Scott Westerfeld libro The Last Days

Fuente: The Last Days

“But it's always taking a risk, when you… kiss someone new.”

Scott Westerfeld libro Traición

Fuente: Uglies

“The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.”

Scott Westerfeld libro Perfección

Fuente: Pretties

“You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.”

“Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.”

Scott Westerfeld libro Extras

Fuente: Extras

“Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.”

Fuente: The Uglies Trilogy

“I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.”

Scott Westerfeld libro Traición

Fuente: Uglies

“Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.”

Scott Westerfeld libro Extras

Fuente: Extras

“When she awoke, the world was on fire.”

Scott Westerfeld libro So Yesterday

Fuente: So Yesterday

“Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.”

Scott Westerfeld libro Traición

Fuente: Uglies

“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 libro Traición

Fuente: Uglies

“We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls.”

Scott Westerfeld libro Specials

Fuente: Specials

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

Scott Westerfeld libro Traición

Fuente: Uglies

“What happens when perfection isn't good enough?”

Scott Westerfeld libro Specials

Fuente: Specials

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

Scott Westerfeld libro Perfección

Fuente: Pretties

“Having a brain hurt so much sometimes.”

Scott Westerfeld libro Traición

Fuente: Uglies

“I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.”

Scott Westerfeld libro Specials

Fuente: Specials

“The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit.”

“Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at leastto grow your own brain.”

Scott Westerfeld libro Traición

Fuente: Uglies

“Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.”

Scott Westerfeld libro Perfección

Fuente: Pretties

“Her only way home was to betray her friend.”

Scott Westerfeld libro Traición

Fuente: Uglies

“Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.”

Scott Westerfeld libro Traición

Fuente: Uglies

“Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty.”

Scott Westerfeld libro Leviathan

Fuente: Leviathan