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The Sagan Diary (Old Man's War, #2.5) QUOTES

The Sagan Diary (Old Man's War, #2.5) QUOTES

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

― John Scalzi , The Sagan Diary (Old Man's War, #2.5)

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

― John Scalzi , The Sagan Diary (Old Man's War, #2.5)

3 " I do not mind when you tell me what you want and put that first instead of last. "

― John Scalzi , The Sagan Diary (Old Man's War, #2.5)

4 " You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself. "

― John Scalzi , The Sagan Diary (Old Man's War, #2.5)

5 " There is a moment of surface tension when a knife blade presents its demand and the flesh honors it. An instant of pressure before the puncture, the rip before the slide, a small eternity easy to miss but impossible to ignore if you’ve felt it before. I lived in that moment a great while for the small sliver of time it was there. "

― John Scalzi , The Sagan Diary (Old Man's War, #2.5)

6 " There is a saying along the lines of not trying to teach a pig to sing because it wastes your time and annoys the pig. I want you to know how many times I have stood in pig-filled rooms, and longed to annoy. I "

― John Scalzi , The Sagan Diary (Old Man's War, #2.5)

7 " In the end I am who I am. I am what I have made myself and what has been made of me. Part of who I am is who you are too; I have given you me as well. I would take your name and hold it in me, and whisper my name in your ear. "

― John Scalzi , The Sagan Diary (Old Man's War, #2.5)

8 " Their lives were their own, and in their way they loved and feared and wondered and hoped. They did not expect me to be the end of all of that. "

― John Scalzi , The Sagan Diary (Old Man's War, #2.5)

9 " What I fear is diminishment, and subtle change, and the moment in which a life without you becomes a sustainable thought. "

― John Scalzi , The Sagan Diary (Old Man's War, #2.5)