{"author":"Scott Westerfeld","author_id":"Scott+Westerfeld","total_quotes":85,"quotes":[{"text":"What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.","author":"Scott Westerfeld","tags":["endings","life","life-and-living","life"],"id":1890,"author_id":"Scott+Westerfeld"},{"text":"Maybe they’re not as mindless as we thought, or so dedicated to turning every last human into one of them. Like Kalyn says, they were just bored, waiting for something better to happen.And that better thing is us.","author":"Scott Westerfeld","tags":["zombies"],"id":4750,"author_id":"Scott+Westerfeld"},{"text":"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.","author":"Scott Westerfeld","tags":["doing-good","war","weapon"],"id":6917,"author_id":"Scott+Westerfeld"},{"text":"And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag.","author":"Scott Westerfeld","tags":["bum-rag","fire","humor","mistakes","ship"],"id":22955,"author_id":"Scott+Westerfeld"},{"text":"I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I've also learned to making big-scale design decisions early.","author":"Scott Westerfeld","tags":["decisions","early","you "],"id":25259,"author_id":"Scott+Westerfeld"},{"text":"Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain—Maddy glanced at Tally—and selfish. It only takes a twist to lock in that part of their personalities. He always thought that some people could think their way out of it.","author":"Scott Westerfeld","tags":["science-fiction","ya"],"id":34519,"author_id":"Scott+Westerfeld"},{"text":"At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.","author":"Scott Westerfeld","tags":["life"],"id":34614,"author_id":"Scott+Westerfeld"},{"text":"A milli-Helen is enough beauty to launch exactly one ship.","author":"Scott Westerfeld","tags":["funny","mythology"],"id":36642,"author_id":"Scott+Westerfeld"},{"text":"I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.","author":"Scott Westerfeld","tags":["freedom","prison"],"id":37236,"author_id":"Scott+Westerfeld"},{"text":"...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.","author":"Scott Westerfeld","tags":["beauty"],"id":46690,"author_id":"Scott+Westerfeld"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":85,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}