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.”

“Being an author sucks, doesn't it? It's like telling a joke and nobody laughs for two years.”

“Sooner or later usually means too late”

“Lilt pulled away. "I saw what he was doing, so I cleared a path for him. I helped him do it…" She shook her head, tears tracking the dust off her face, and turned to stare at the fallen tower. "Have we all gone mad to want this?”

“Bubbly is bogus.”

“That was the whole point of being special: You existed to make sure everyone else behaved, but that didn't mean YOU had to.”

“Where did you get that idea for a nose?
- Frizz Mizuno”

“Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry.”

“Probably? So you're asking me to trust my life to steel wool and peanut butter?"
"Poisoned peanut butter."
"Cal, I don't care if it's nuclear peanut butter.”

“Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city."

"There are no limits in war," Volger said, still staring out the window.”

“the parties are no fun until everyone gets drunk”

“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”

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

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

“What about a hoverboard?"
"It's waiting on the roof, of course." Dr. Cable snorted. "What is it about you miscreants and those things?”

“We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in…”

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

“so pRetty i hAd to Eat hiM”

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

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

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

“Hiding from the truth was worse than being lied to.”

“Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.”

“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.”

“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!”

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

“Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.”