Quotes from John Scalzi

Are we agreed that the goal here is survival, not a win?

What is it like when you lose someone you love?" Jane asked. "You die, too," I said. "And you wait around for your body to catch up."-

It was breathtaking the situations that humans put themselves into, and still managed to thrive.

This was a person who operated best and most efficiently when she was truly and genuinely pissed off; wishing for her to mellow out was like wishing an alpha predator would switch to grains. It was missing the point.

This would require an e-book reader that is as easy to read as a traditional book, durable to abuse as much as we abuse paperbacks and cheap enough that when you lose it, you can buy another one

Your pinky promises sit on a throne of lies

That's nuts," Niamh said. "That's evolution

And as luck would have it, a position opened up here." "It wasn't luck," Mbeke said. "It was a Longranian Ice Shark," Cassaway said.

They didn't mean any harm in it. But of course not meaning harm isn't the same as not doing harm.

But everyone knows you need fireworks to make independence official.

Nice is nice," Hayter-Ross said. "But being a bitch gets results.

I have drinks," Hanson said, coming up behind Duvall. "Why, Jimmy," Duvall said. "That makes you my new favorite person.

I will communicate that issue to the countess." "Do that. Also communicate to her the part where I said 'fuck you.' Make sure you phrase it precisely that way.

There was no need to import my crippling diet cola addiction to a brand-new world, and besides, the fountain was Pepsi products anyway. New planet, new life.

You have five minutes," I said. "Of course, because any more time would make this too easy.

After watching Star Wars everyone wanted a lightsaber and was irritated that the technology for them didn't really exist. Everyone also agreed the Ewoks should all die. Two

I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.

Apparently you don't have to understand physics to protest.

I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.

Harvey called it his Occam's razor theory of combat: The simplest way of kicking someone's ass was usually the correct one.

The base of the water tower gave every indication of being a solid argument for tetanus shots.

I understand you knew Nadashe Nohamapetan personally." "I did," Kiva said. "What did you think of her?" "She's a raging jar of crotch sweat." "Seems accurate.

The Yherajk were a less immediate but infinitely more complicated problem—alien globs who want to befriend a humanity that, if asked, would probably prefer to be befriended by something with an endoskeleton.

Because this is what I learned about myself that first day: My body is my body. I don't want anyone else in it. I don't want someone else controlling it, or trying to. It's my own little space in the world and the only space I have. And to have someone else in it, doing anything to it, sends me into a panic.