Quotes by John Scalzi

“I was getting away with something in my own way. But then I get here and saw you, brain-dead and with tubes coming out of every part of your body. And I realized I wasn't getting away with anything...”

“Trust your weapon, it is almost certainly smarter than you are. Remember this and you may yet live.”

“Dreher laments we now live in a “post-Christian” America, but he’s wrong. The Americans who are standing with their loved ones and neighbors are in fact doing exactly what Jesus asked them to do, w...”

“Rich people show their appreciation through favors. When everyone you know has more money than they know what to do with, money stops being a useful transactional tool. So instead you offer favors....”

“I do not mind when you tell me what you want and put that first instead of last.”

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

“Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us. I miss meaning something to someone, having that part of being human.”

“After our negotiations were completed, the dome would be imploded and launched toward the nearest black hole, so that none of its atoms would ever contaminate this particular universe again. I thou...”

“I'm going to go pee. If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.”

“The universe isn't going to be conquered by legions of geriatrics. No offense.”

“The universe is a big place. Maybe we're not in the best neighborhood.”

“Jack Holloway told me he would get the son of a bitch who killed my child and the mate of my child," Papa continued. "Jack Holloway did get that son of a bitch. Jack Holloway got you. You are the m...”

“Relations were never good (how comfortable can you really be with a race that sees you as a nutritious part of a complete breakfast).”

“What we don't know can't hurt us.”

“You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.”

“Simply put, she was the one who had to put up with me. That she did so with love and patience and encouragement instead of strangling me, throwing my remains into a wood chipper, and then pretendin...”

“When you're a kid all you want to do is be somewhere else.”

“You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn’t cost you much to do it. I’d rather apologize for something I didn’t really care about, and leave someone ...”

“Colonization is the key to our race’s survival. It’s as simple as that. We must colonize or be closed off and contained by other races.”

“She was my friend. Briefly, she was my lover. She was braver than I ever would have been in the moment of death. And I bet she was a hell of a shooting star.”