392 Quotes by John Scalzi

Teenagers can be idiotic and stupid, but teenagers also model their behavior from the signals they get from adults.

I do have a sense of adventure,” I said. “It’s overawed by my sense of self-preservation.

We buy time where we may.” “You bought yourself time,” Oi agreed. “I don’t think it’s of very good quality.

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.

You asked for help,” Wilson said. I also tried to blow up your ship with you in it. “That was before you knew me,” Wilson said. I’m sorry about that. “I’m not going to tell you not to be sorry,” Wilson said, “but I can understand wanting to get your body back.

She had the expression of the cat who ate the canary and then threw it up in her owner’s favorite shoes.

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.

One of Harvey’s guiding lights in terms of strategies was simplicity; all things being equal, Harvey preferred the course of action that let him get into the middle of things and then just buckle down.

Well, that’s science fiction television for you, though,” Abnett said. “Someone’s got to be the red shirt.