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The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2) QUOTES

The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2) QUOTES

1 " To everyone who thinks writing a sequel should be easy because you've already clreated the universe: Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha! Heh. No. "

― John Scalzi , The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)

2 " Colonel, I'm giving you a direct order. Eat the fucking cookie. "

― John Scalzi , The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)

3 " Every creature has a survival instinct. It looks like fear but it’s not the same thing. Fear isn’t the desire to avoid death or pain. Fear is rooted in the knowledge that what you recognize as yourself can cease to exist. Fear is existential. "

― John Scalzi , The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)

4 " Occam’s razor theory of combat: The simplest way of kicking someone’s ass was usually the correct one. "

― John Scalzi , The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)

5 " It was interesting what you could do, when your enemy was officially your ally. And unaware you knew it was your enemy. "

― John Scalzi , The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)

6 " Yes, he's an equal opportunity asshole," Szilard said. "And he's aware of it, which he thinks means it's okay. "

― John Scalzi , The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)

7 " The supply transport’s on autopilot most of the way down anyway. I’m just on board so that if it crashes, they can say someone died. "

― John Scalzi , The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)

8 " Imagine waking up and finding your first and last view of the world was a shotgun barrel. That’d be a hell of a life. "

― John Scalzi , The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)

9 " Harvey knew what he was and what he was best at: He was a noisy son of a bitch and he was good at making things fall down and go boom. "

― John Scalzi , The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)

10 " At least one tribe, the Geln, strongly opposed attacking the Colonial Union, since humans were reasonably strong, distressingly tenacious and not especially principled when they felt threatened. "

― John Scalzi , The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)

11 " Two classics stuck with them. Ender’s Game delighted them all; here were soldiers who were just like them, except smaller. The main character was even bred to fight alien species like they were. The next day the members of the 8th greeted each other with the salutation ::Ho, Ender,:: until Brahe told them to knock it off and pay attention. "

― John Scalzi , The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)

12 " After watching Star Wars everyone wanted a lightsaber and was irritated that the technology for them didn’t really exist. Everyone also agreed the Ewoks should all die. "

― John Scalzi , The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)

13 " First off, to everyone who thinks writing a sequel should be easy because you’ve already created the universe: Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha! Heh. No. "

― John Scalzi , The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)

14 " 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 unexpected arrivals. "

― John Scalzi , The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)

15 " If they can work out the kinks, it could revolutionize space travel.” “ ‘Work out the kinks’?” Jared said. “I’m about to use this thing. Kinks are bad. "

― John Scalzi , The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)

16 " Some planets evolved genetic structures roughly similar to Earth’s, incorporating some if not all the nucleotides involved in terrestrial genetics (perhaps not coincidentally, the intelligent species of these planets have been known to consume humans from time to time; "

― John Scalzi , The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)

17 " It’s not that Seaborg disliked Harvey, but after a couple of combat drops with the 2nd Platoon one got the sense that if you didn’t like things to explode unnecessarily around you, you would want to stay well clear of Daniel Harvey. "

― John Scalzi , The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)

18 " At dinner members of the 8th enthusiastically told each other to pass the fucking salt, you fucking sack of shit, until Brahe told them to quit that goddamn shit, cocksuckers, because it got old pretty goddamn quick. "

― John Scalzi , The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)

19 " On the sixth day, Jared and the rest of the 8th finally figured out what that sex thing was all about. On the seventh day, and as a direct consequence of the sixth day, they rested. "

― John Scalzi , The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)

20 " Szilard looked over at Robbins. “Is it true?” he said. “Which part, sir?” Robbins said. “That you don’t like General Mattson,” Szilard said. “He can take some getting used to, sir,” Robbins said. “By which he means I’m an asshole, "

― John Scalzi , The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War, #2)