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Lock In (Lock In, #1) QUOTES

Lock In (Lock In, #1) QUOTES

1 " Rich people show their appreciation through favors. When everyone you know has more money than they know what to do with, money stops being a useful transactional tool. So instead you offer favors. Deals. Quid pro quos. Things that involve personal involvement rather than money. Because when you're that rich, your personal time is your limiting factor. "

― John Scalzi , Lock In (Lock In, #1)

2 " Simply put, she was the one who had to put up with me. That she did so with love and patience and encouragement instead of strangling me, throwing my remains into a wood chipper, and then pretending she had never been married to me at all is a testament to the fact that she is, in fact, the single best person I know. "

― John Scalzi , Lock In (Lock In, #1)

3 " When you're a kid all you want to do is be somewhere else. "

― John Scalzi , Lock In (Lock In, #1)

4 " You say ‘cure.’ I hear ‘you’re not human enough. "

― John Scalzi , Lock In (Lock In, #1)

5 " It's not an effective protest if it's not pissing people off. "

― John Scalzi , Lock In (Lock In, #1)

6 " Making people change because you can’t deal with who they are isn’t how it’s supposed to be done. What needs to be done is for people to pull their heads out of their asses. You say ‘cure.’ I hear ‘you’re not human enough. "

― John Scalzi , Lock In (Lock In, #1)

7 " Which is why Mom, when she’s being indiscreet, refers to the trophy room as the “vet’s office.” Because that’s where Dad brings people to take their balls. "

― John Scalzi , Lock In (Lock In, #1)

8 " I’ve been told my liminal space is like the dark of the grave. But I think of it as the dark from the other end of life entirely. The dark of everything ahead, not everything behind. "

― John Scalzi , Lock In (Lock In, #1)

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

― John Scalzi , Lock In (Lock In, #1)

10 " She was old and crankily conservative in the way only old liberals could be. "

― John Scalzi , Lock In (Lock In, #1)

11 " The diagnostic said there was nothing wrong with the threep, which may have meant there was something wrong with the diagnostic. "

― John Scalzi , Lock In (Lock In, #1)

12 " Really really really difficult," Tony allowed. "But theoretically possible because, hey, it's a quantum physics universe. "

― John Scalzi , Lock In (Lock In, #1)

13 " Sani's family lived in a well-kept double-wide in an otherwise less-than-spiff trailer park outside of Sawmill. "

― John Scalzi , Lock In (Lock In, #1)

14 " And also because I know if I’ve figured it out, someone else has too, because there’s always someone else smarter out there, who may not have ethics. "

― John Scalzi , Lock In (Lock In, #1)

15 " I’m saying pay attention to when it makes sense to say something,” Vann said. “And pay attention to when it makes sense to hold it in for the moment. I get that you’re used to saying what you think to anyone, anytime. That comes from being an entitled rich kid. "

― John Scalzi , Lock In (Lock In, #1)

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

― John Scalzi , Lock In (Lock In, #1)

17 " Is it always like this?" Tayla asked.
"My job?"
"Yes"
"This is my first week on the job," I said. "So, so far? Yes."
"How do you feel about that?"
"Like I wish I had decided to be the typical rich kid and been a sponge on my parents," I said.
"You don't really mean that," Tayla said.
"No," I said. "But at the moment I really want to feel like I did. "

― John Scalzi , Lock In (Lock In, #1)

18 " Because this is what I learned about myself that first day: My body is my body. I don’t want anyone else in it. I don’t want someone else controlling it, or trying to. It’s my own little space in the world and the only space I have. And to have someone else in it, doing anything to it, sends me into a panic. "

― John Scalzi , Lock In (Lock In, #1)

19 " It’s not an effective protest if it’s not pissing people off. "

― John Scalzi , Lock In (Lock In, #1)

20 " I love her more than I actually express in words—an irony for a writer—and am every day genuinely amazed I get to spend my life with her. "

― John Scalzi , Lock In (Lock In, #1)