Scott Westerfeld Quotes

Annoyed?” said Sophie. “Why should I be annoyed? Someone only filled the castle with rotten aspic, and deafened everyone in Porthaven, and scared Calcifer to a cinder, and broke a few hundred hearts. Why should that annoy me?

Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.

Nuts!

Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence.

It's better to be pissed off than pissed on.

It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.

A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.

Face flushed, I shook my head and stared at my white-knuckled grip on the bed. Of all my pet peeves, condescending adults were probably at the top of the list.

Haters are going to hate.

If you go on condemning, your condemnation shows that somewhere there is a wound, and you are feeling jealous - because without jealousy there can be no condemnation. You condemn people because somehow, somewhere, unconsciously you feel they are enjoying themselves and you have missed.

there is undoubtedly something irritating about the favorites of fortune.

Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.

They were frightfully angry. Quite apart from the stones no spider has ever liked being called Attercop, and Tomnoddy of course is insulting to anybody.

Excuse my French, everybody in America, but I am pissed.

If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.

I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?

If you ask me if I'm okay again, I'm going to smack myself in the face just to punish you.

Irritation for some men was their response to strain.

The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.

Don't be drinking the Haterade.

Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.

anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.

great. now i was starting to get jealous of myself.

It was the first time I'd ever felt truly jealous of anyone else in my entire life.