Pretties
Scott Westerfeld
Top 10 Best Quotes
“What happens when perfection isn't good enough?”
“Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain.”
“And over all those sleepy weeks, the dream always ended the same way, with the dragon coming for the princess saying the same words every time.... "Face it, Tally-wa, you're Special.”
“Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice.”
“With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.”
“Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.”
“At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.”
“Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.”
“Being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain . . . and selfish. It only takes a twist to lock in that part of their personalities.”
“And the worst thing was, there were no mirrors out there in the wild, so the princess was left wondering whether she in fact was still beautiful... or if the fall had changed the story completely.”
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falling, reality, dissatisfaction, pretties, fall, life, beauty, princess
