392 Quotes by John Scalzi

You threw him into space?” “Yup.” “And he didn’t die?” “We only threw him out a little bit.” Marce.

Yes. The one advantage we had, which is a thing I brought to the enterprise, was the understanding that the plan was not the goal. The goal was the goal, and we were going to get to it however we could. And if it meant changing our plans, sometimes in the middle of executing them, then we would.

Q’eeng had just attempted in the third dialect the traditional rightward schism greeting of “I offer you the bread of life,” but his phrasing and accent had transmuted the statement into “Let us violate cakes together.

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.

It’s the end of civilization as we know it. And it’s going to be great for business.

There has never been a military in the entire history of the human race that has gone to war equipped with more than the least that it needs to fight its enemy. War is expensive. It costs money and it costs lives and no civilization has an infinite amount of either. So when you fight, you conserve. You use and equip only as much as you have to, never more.

It’s not spam if you agree to it,” Tony said. “They just won’t have much of a choice.

I propose a toast. Here’s to being right all the time. May God and history forgive us.” They all clinked glasses to that.

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