392 Quotes by John Scalzi

I’m sorry,” the groundskeeper said. “Usually the kharhn we feed to the kingsflower are already dead. I never get to see anything live fed to it. This is exciting for me.

You’ve got yourself a cloned body here, Jim.

And before that, there was, oh, I don’t know, editors experiencing demonic possessions and devouring lagging midlist writers. It’s always something.

This is the same Lizzie Chao who I went to high school with,” Hart said. “I believe so,” Isabel said. “She’s married,” Hart said. “She’s separated,” Isabel said. “Which means she’s married with an option to trade up,” Catherine said.

If you ever want to feel like you’re on the verge of total, abject bowel-releasing terror, try making your way a klick or two out of a forest, at night, with the certain feeling you’re being hunted. It makes you feel alive, it really does, but not in a way you want to feel alive.

Victor Frankenstein had assembled from the bodies of the dead and then jolted into life. Jared saw how Frankenstein felt pride in creating life, but how he feared and rejected the creature once that life had been given; how the creature lashed out, killing the doctor’s family and friends, and how creator and created were finally consumed in a pyre, their fates interlocked. The allusions between the monster and the Special Forces were all too obvious.

I worked in marketing,” Rachela I said. “Before I was a prophet. After, too, but we didn’t call it that after that point.

Which reminds me that you’ll be searched on both ends of your journey, on both ends of your body. Sorry, that was a nonnegotiable.” Nadashe shrugged. “I was groped worse in college.” “I don’t know what to do with that information.

Sometimes in life you’re going to win and sometimes you’re going to lose. But just because you lose doesn’t mean the other guy needs to win.