392 Quotes by John Scalzi

Did she tell you I set puppies on fire, too?” Vann asked. “She did not,” I said. “It may have been implied.

They were the only people in all the universe who were not conscious. Although every creature could think and reason, it could not know itself as every other intelligent creature could know itself. The creatures lacked awareness of who they were as individuals, even as they lived and thrived and grew on the face of the moon of the planet.

The good news is I peed before going to sleep.

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

Lovely,” Wilson said, looking at the display. “And by ‘lovely,’ I mean ‘Oh, crap.

What was your job back on Earth? I’ve always been curious. I taught eighth-grade math in Tallahassee. Huh, I said. That’s not what I expected. Are you kidding? Powell said back. You try teaching algebra to a bunch of little shitheads for thirty-eight years straight. The way I figure it I’ve got about another decade before my rage from that gets entirely burned up.

You could say our new colonies live off the bodies of the dead. Only they’re not really the bodies of the dead. They’re just the cast-off bodies of the living.

But of course not meaning harm isn’t the same as not doing harm.

The goal shouldn’t be to make your child eat an entire set of encyclopedias by the age of six. The goal should be to encourage your child to be curious – to want to learn about the world, and explore the things that are in it.