Frases de Scott Westerfeld

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“¿Debía contarle a aquel nuevo imperfecto que, esa misma tarde,
iban a abrirle el cuerpo, a limarle los huesos para darles la forma adecuada, a estirar
o rellenar algunos, a quitarle el cartílago nasal y los pómulos y a sustituirlos por
plástico programable, a lijarle la piel y volver a sembrarla como a un campo de fútbol
en primavera? ¿Que le tallarían los ojos con láser para toda una vida de visión
perfecta, que le colocarían implantes reflectantes bajo el iris para añadir motas
doradas a su mediocre castaño? ¿Que le arreglarían todos los músculos con una
noche de electrócisis y le succionarían toda la grasa infantil para siempre? ¿Que le sustituirían los dientes por cerámicas fuertes como el ala de una aeronave suborbital
y blancas como la porcelana buena de la residencia?”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“My name is tally youngblood and my mind is very ugly”

“Wow," came a familiar voice, "Hypochondriac killed the cat."
-Dess”

“Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?"

"I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.”

“People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.”

“Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”

“You'd think that in a fight, NOT MOVING would be a bad habit!”

“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.”

“Fifteen!" Dess's distant cry reached him. "Where the hell are you, Rex? Ten. You're-an-idiot-nine, get-back-here-eight, you-dimwit-seven…”

“Gravity was something you could beat; all it took was hydrogen, hot air, or even a bit of rope. But being a girl was a miserable, never-ending struggle.”

“The man was allergic to sleep.”

“I love my virginity to the apocalypse.”

“Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.
-Jonathan”

“Did you really think I was too fragile to know what Deryn was?"

"Fragile?" Volger looked about. "I hadn't thought so, but now I find you brooding in a bathroom. This doesn't speak well of your sturdiness.”

“What if destiny doesn't care?”

“She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. Tally Youngblood was a weed. And, unlike the orchids, she wasn't even a pretty one.”

“Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma.”

“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.”

“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"….”

“And you know, these things don't last forever.'

I know, Mandy. Nothing does.'

That's the spirit.”

“It's just programming"
"No. It's because I love him”

“He thinks Goliath can end the war," Alek managed at last. "The man wants peace!"

"As do we all," Count Volger said. "But there are many ways to end a war. Some are more peaceful than others.”

“I go where the lizards tell me.”

“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.”

“Nature was tough, it could be dangerous, but unlike Dr. Cable or shay, or peris-unlike people in general-it made sense. The problems it threw at you could be solved rationally.”

“All that glitters is not hovery.”

“Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse - bright knives slicing the night into pieces.”

“However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally's choice to stay.”

“It's just been a long week, that's all."
"It's monday night, Jess."
"My point exactly.”

“So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?' -- Tally to Peris”