Afterworlds Quotes

“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.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

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

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

“Hiding from the truth was worse than being lied to.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

“You don't know what it's like, when your best friend disappears.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

“The best way to know a city is to eat it.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

“You don't think happy endings are stupid anymore?"

"Your question is irrelevant," Imogen said. "This isn't the end.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

“Just remember, the things we write, they aren't always really us.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

“In a novel you always knew the moment when something Happened, when someone Changed. But real life was full of gradual, piecemeal, continuous transformation. It was full of accidents and undefineables, and things that just happened on their own. The only certainty was 'It's complicated,' whether or not unicorns tolerated your touch.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

“First love is amazing and wonderful, but a kind of panic underlies it, a sense of not knowing what you're doing.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

“Being fathomed was even better than being flattered, it turned out.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

“Sleep is a little slice of death.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

“...but loving had left her skinless.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

“Blurbs don’t work anymore!” was another. “You should make sure that the quotable lines of dialogue in your book never exceed a hundred and forty characters!” seemed at best debatable.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

“The universe is math on fire.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

“For me, writing's the only thing that's always real. I've never regretted a day I wrote a good scene, whatever else I screwed up that day. That's what's fucking real.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

“Looking for a thousand years is worth it, if in the end you find what you need.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

“Adulation is like rain. You can only get so wet.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

“Nice concept. But is it a trilogy or a tweet?" "I can't tell any more.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

“More lies, but maybe lies were better than the truth.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

“The scent of a faraway place lay on my skin.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

“Mindy had explained that a lot of things had ghosts, not just people. Animals, machines, even things as vast as a paved-over forest or as humble as the smell of good cooking could leave traces of themselves behind. The world was haunted by the past.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

“Maybe that was the point of truth-you could erase it all you wanted, and it was there was to be discovered again.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

“I'm here to learn. And what you have taught me is to avoid love as long as possible.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

“Because that's what people need after traumas, apparently - lots of long conversations about the effects of trauma.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

“The opening chapter was the book's unique selling point, the singular idea that had carried Darcy through last November, and Coleman had just come up with it off the top of his head.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

“It’s just . . . it feels like someone’s going to ask me for ID. Like, writer ID.” The”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

“And I kind of love it that you want to know everything.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

“Maybe that was the point of truth--you could erase it all you wanted, and it was there to be discovered again”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

“Don’t worry,” he kept saying. “The overworld can’t hurt you if you stay calm.” I wasn’t calm at all. But my panic was like a poisonous snake at a zoo, staring at me from the other side of thick glass. Only Yamaraj’s touch on my arm kept the glass from shattering. His skin seemed to burn against mine.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds