John Scalzi Quotes

In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere and b) in my opinion as a father, there’s not a damn thing wrong with my child encountering gay folks in her literature, because see point a).

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Filled with existential ennui about your place in the universe? Get over yourself. Yes, you're an inconsequential worm in the grand scope of history. But you're an inconsequential worm who makes shit up for a living, which means that you don't have to lift heavy boxes or ask people if they want fries with that. Grow up and get back to work.

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The failure mode of clever is “asshole.

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It's easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she's never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive.

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Is it painful?" the groundskeeper asked. "I am asking for science.

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Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.

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Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.

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