Uglies quote: being required to have fun

I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.

– Shay (character) in Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies

http://scottwesterfeld.com/blog/2008/01/favorite-quotations/

Uglies is set in a world in which everyone has an operation when they turn sixteen, making them supermodel beautiful. Big eyes, full lips, no one fat or skinny. You might think this is a good thing, but it’s not. Especially if you’re one of the Smokies, a bunch of radical teens who’ve decided they want to keep their own faces. (How anti-social of them.)

Uglies is a trilogy-plus-one, with Extras being a “companion novel” and told from a different point of view. All four Uglies books have been New York Times bestsellers!