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Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1) QUOTES

Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1) QUOTES

1 " For as much as I hate the cemetery, I’ve been grateful it’s here, too. I miss my wife. It’s easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she’s never been anything but dead, than to miss her in all the places where she was alive. "

― John Scalzi , Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

2 " Damn real live people, getting in the way of peaceful ideals. "

― John Scalzi , Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

3 " You can’t afford anthropomorphic biases when some of the aliens most like us would rather make human hamburgers than peace. "

― John Scalzi , Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

4 " Trust your weapon, it is almost certainly smarter than you are. Remember this and you may yet live. "

― John Scalzi , Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

5 " Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us. I miss meaning something to someone, having that part of being human. "

― John Scalzi , Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

6 " After our negotiations were completed, the dome would be imploded and launched toward the nearest black hole, so that none of its atoms would ever contaminate this particular universe again. I thought that last part was overkill. "

― John Scalzi , Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

7 " I'm going to go pee. If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder. "

― John Scalzi , Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

8 " The universe isn't going to be conquered by legions of geriatrics. No offense. "

― John Scalzi , Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

9 " The universe is a big place. Maybe we're not in the best neighborhood. "

― John Scalzi , Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

10 " Relations were never good (how comfortable can you really be with a race that sees you as a nutritious part of a complete breakfast). "

― John Scalzi , Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

11 " What we don't know can't hurt us. "

― John Scalzi , Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

12 " You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn’t cost you much to do it. I’d rather apologize for something I didn’t really care about, and leave someone on Earth wishing me well, than to be stubborn and have that someone hoping that some alien would slurp out my brains. Call it karmic insurance. "

― John Scalzi , Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

13 " Colonization is the key to our race’s survival. It’s as simple as that. We must colonize or be closed off and contained by other races. "

― John Scalzi , Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

14 " She was my friend. Briefly, she was my lover. She was braver than I ever would have been in the moment of death. And I bet she was a hell of a shooting star. "

― John Scalzi , Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

15 " Leon had attached himself to me in Chicago like a fat, brat-and-beer-filled tick; I was amazed that someone whose blood was clearly half pork grease had made it to age seventy-five. "

― John Scalzi , Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

16 " The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another—it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time. "

― John Scalzi , Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

17 " I think back to the day I stood before my wife's grave for the final time, and turned away from it without regret, because I knew that what she was was not contained in that hole in the ground. I entered a new life and found her again, in a woman who was entirely her own person. When this life is done, I'll turn away from it without regret as well, because I know she waits for me, in another, different life. "

― John Scalzi , Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

18 " Then you're seventy-five, friends are dead, and you've replaced at least one major organ: you have to pee four times a night, and you can't go up a flight a stairs without being little winded -- and your're told you're in pretty good shape for your age.

[....], in a decade you'll be eighty-five, and the only difference between you and a raisin will be that while you're both wrinkled and without a prostate, the raisin never had a prostate to begin with. "

― John Scalzi , Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

19 " I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.
Visiting Kathy's grave was the less dramatic of the two. "

― John Scalzi , Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)

20 " Now, you may think that this is some sort of generalized hatred that I will carry for the lot of you. Let me assure you that this is not the case. Each of you will fail, but you will fail in your own unique way, and therefore I will dislike each of you on an individual basis. "

― John Scalzi , Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)