“ Stop whining like a fucking child. You could have just said, ‘I need your help.’ All right. I need your help. Stop whining like a fucking child. That’s not better. John Scalzi
“ I’m a seething cauldron of disconnected rage on the inside, Lieutenant. Ah, repression, Keyes said. Excellent. Try to avoid taking a potshot at me when you finally blow, please. I can’t promise anythi… John Scalzi
“ I was just talking about you, Cardenia said, coming up to him. To your imaginary friends, I see. They’re not imaginary. They’re just not real. Very subtle distinction. John Scalzi
“ I seem to be good at speaking the politicians’ language, Szilard said. Apparently there’s an advantage around here to being mildly socially retarded, and that’s the Special Forces for sure. John Scalzi
“ Captain, the problem is not that I’m paranoid. The problem is that the universe keeps justifying my paranoia. John Scalzi
“ But define 'completely ridiculous shit,' Duvall said. Does space travel count? Contact with alien races? Does quantum physics count? Because I don't understand that crap at all. As far as I'm concerne… John Scalzi
“ Because every time I think of starships skipping across the galaxy, I imagine Albert Einstein in a policeman’s uniform, writing up a ticket. John Scalzi
“ A fourth part of his brain was saying, This is the part where you run and scream a lot. He was listening to the fourth part. John Scalzi
“ He didn’t exactly have the programmer look to him, if you know what I mean. He’d be the programmer’s boss. The one they hated. The one who made them work on holidays. John Scalzi
“ [I]t was designed to operate with minimal assistance from humans, who were without exception the moving part most likely to fail. John Scalzi
“ While landing a spacecraft on a planet via Skip Drive navigation was officially and strongly discouraged by the Colonial Union, the Colonial Defense Forces recognized the strategic value of sudden and… John Scalzi
“ Well, life is like that sometimes, Isabel said. We learn things too late, and then we don't get to use them. John Scalzi
“ The recruiting office was a small storefront in a nondescript strip mall; there was a state liquor authority store on one side of it and a tattoo parlor on the other. Depending on what order you went… John Scalzi
“ The Scooby gang doesn’t travel because they are looking for crimes to solve. They travel because they’re one step ahead of the deprogrammers. Somehow, Fred’s got them all snookered. It probably has so… John Scalzi
“ Remember that the plant wants to eat you, the groundskeeper said. It’s not going to let you get away. Don’t fight it. Let yourself be eaten. Don’t take this the wrong way, but I’m finding your advice… John Scalzi
“ 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… John Scalzi
“ 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… John Scalzi
