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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ba40bab | What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had that flower in your hand? Ah, what then? - Samuel Taylor Coleridge | J. Steve Miller | ||
| 00d6ed0 | Snow fell. Carolers moved among the mansions of Prairie Avenue, pausing now and then to enter the fine houses for hot mulled cider and cocoa. The air was scented with woodsmoke and roasting duck. In Graceland Cemetery, to the north, young couples raced their sleighs over the snow-heaped undulations, pulling their blankets especially tight as they passed the dark and dour tombs of Chicago's richest and most powerful men, the tombs' bleakness.. | Erik Larson | ||
| 2ec0f9a | I don't know Mr. Wilson to any degree--I am one of those who knew him best for creating the source material for Life Force, which was a terrible movie--but my wish for him was that he lived the sort of life where he didn't actually care what his obits said, and instead enjoyed his life and left work that had the possibility of speaking for itself, over time. If you're a creative (or indeed any other) person, let me suggest you don't worry a.. | John Scalzi | ||
| efdf101 | It's not whether she tells everyone," Huma said. "It's whether they believe her." "It's the truth." "Oh, my daughter," Huma said, and smiled. "Don't tell me you don't know how little that actually means." | John Scalzi | ||
| 7387618 | 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 | ||
| e09e29d | 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 | ||
| ae78ced | 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 | ||
| 729a3fe | 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 | ||
| bfd2daf | 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 | ||
| f665b82 | 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 | ||
| f030a17 | You don't have paperwork," Savitri said. "You give it all to me." "Is it done?" I asked. "As far as you know, yes," Savitri said." | john scalzi | ||
| 21d7770 | I]t was designed to operate with minimal assistance from humans, who were without exception the moving part most likely to fail. | weak-link | John Scalzi | |
| 3bc9942 | 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 | ||
| d996674 | He was determined to be the most touristy tourist who had ever touristed, | John Scalzi | ||
| 63c1069 | We're in the wrong universe for fair. | John Scalzi | ||
| 0f45960 | I've met a lot of people in the diplomatic corps who were in love with the sound of their own voice, but this guy. He and his voice should just get a room. | John Scalzi | ||
| 6648adf | Oh, God," I said. "Thank you so very much for the mental image of Dad as a teenage sack of hormones. That's the sort of image that takes therapy to get rid of." | John Scalzi | ||
| e442085 | Stop whining like a fucking child." "You could have just said, 'I need your help.'" "All right. I need your help. Stop whining like a fucking child." "That's not better." | John Scalzi | ||
| 73413ce | I don't think food safety laws are going to protect you from a third carnitas burrito," Hanson said. "That's not about food safety. It's about pork fat overload." | John Scalzi | ||
| 44f863e | And when I say "exploded" I mean "interacted catastrophically with the topography of space/time in ways we're not entirely able to explain," but "explode" gets the gist of it, particularly with regard to what would happen to a human caught in it." | John Scalzi | ||
| 0b736e2 | Danielle Lowen: How are you? I am fine. The group that destroyed Earth Station and made it look like the Colonial Union did it is now planning to nuke the surface of your planet until it glows, and frame the Conclave for it. Hope you are well. Looking forward to rescuing you in space again soon. Your friend, Harry Wilson. | John Scalzi | ||
| e357203 | There's nothing like sharing menarche with a billion hermaphrodites. I think it was everyone's first time. | John Scalzi | ||
| 6d9ae68 | I do not mind when you tell me what you want and put that first instead of last. | love | John Scalzi | |
| 8586af6 | We buy time where we may." "You bought yourself time," Oi agreed. "I don't think it's of very good quality." | John Scalzi | ||
| 07bc95f | something funny, Lord Marce?" asked a young woman, standing in front of a desk. She was wearing imperial green. This was clearly the emperox, and equally clearly he'd just blown his entrance. He bowed. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty," he said. "I was surprised by your office." "How so?" "I ... well. Ma'am. It looks like a museum exploded inside of it." Obelees Atek sucked in her breath and apparently was now waiting for the emperox to sentence hi.. | John Scalzi | ||
| 8dcc7b5 | Is it painful?" the groundskeeper asked. "I am asking for science." | pain science science-fiction | John Scalzi | |
| ba8836b | Because every time I think of starships skipping across the galaxy, I imagine Albert Einstein in a policeman's uniform, writing up a ticket. | John Scalzi | ||
| 66f8951 | Well, I'm sorry my telling the truth about the stupid things you do is inconvenient for you, | John Scalzi | ||
| 5652459 | There's a saying: "May you live in interesting times." To begin, it's a curse. "Interesting" in this case uniformly means "Oh god, death is raining down upon us and we shall all perish wailing and possibly on fire." If someone wanted to say something nice to you, they wouldn't tell you to live in "interesting" times. They would say something like, "I wish you eternal happiness" or "May you have peace" or "Live long and prosper" and so on. T.. | John Scalzi | ||
| 100efdf | You've got yourself a cloned body here, Jim. | John Scalzi | ||
| 1583186 | But I have always found that there's an inverse relationship between the number of people in a room and the amount of useful work that can be done. | John Scalzi | ||
| 443f756 | Anyone can be a prophet. You just have to say that what you're talking about is a reflection of God. Or of the gods. Or of some divine spirit. However you want to put it. Whether those things come true isn't one way or another about it. | John Scalzi | ||
| 5978d86 | I thought this was a matter of some urgency, Harry." "It is," I said. "But I fell from the sky today. I could use a couple of waffles." | John Scalzi | ||
| 260f94d | When I was twelve, my appendix burst, and as they were wheeling my ass into the operating room, I asked the doctor, "How will this affect my piano playing?" and he said, "Don't worry, you'll still be able to play the piano," and I said, "Wow! I wasn't able to before!" And then they gassed me." | John Scalzi | ||
| 25a1f71 | What was your job back on Earth? I've always been curious. I taught eighth-grade math in Tallahassee. Huh, I said. That's not what I expected. Are you kidding? Powell said back. You try teaching algebra to a bunch of little shitheads for thirty-eight years straight. The way I figure it I've got about another decade before my rage from that gets entirely burned up. | John Scalzi | ||
| 89a1c58 | Yes, death by away team. Very effective on this ship," Jenkins said." | John Scalzi | ||
| 13b590e | One of Harvey's guiding lights in terms of strategies was simplicity; all things being equal, Harvey preferred the course of action that let him get into the middle of things and then just buckle down. | John Scalzi | ||
| 6f4f886 | Hide' isn't a word we like to use," Cassaway said. "'Perform alternative tasks' is the preferred term." | John Scalzi | ||
| 100e1f2 | Part of me was once someone you loved--she sent. I think that part of me wants to be loved by you again, and wants me to love you as well. I can't be her. I can just be me. But I think you could love me if you wanted to. I want you to. Come to me when you can. I'll be here. | John Scalzi | ||
| 1007482 | He reached over, took the second cookie, and offered it to Robbins. "Here," he said. "I saw you coveting it." Robbins stared at the cookie, then looked around. "I can't take that," he said. "Sure you can," Szilard said. "I'm not supposed to eat anything here," Robbins said. "So what?" Szilard said. "Screw 'em. It's a ridiculous tradition and you know it. So break it. Take the cookie." Robbins took the cookie and stared at it glumly. "Oh, go.. | John Scalzi | ||
| db123f6 | And so we learn how simple it is to change the history of the universe," Sorvalh said. "All you need is for every other thing to have gone so horribly wrong" | John Scalzi | ||
| 94b0835 | How many people volunteer for an army and then claim conscientious objector status? | claim conscientious objector people status volunteer | John Scalzi | |
| 0d21647 | This brings me back to my question about my karma," Wilson said. "You probably set kittens on fire," Schmidt said. "And the rest of us were probably there with you, with skewers." | John Scalzi | ||
| 022089f | I don't care whether I really exist or don't, whether I'm real or fictional. What I want right now is to be the person who decides my own fate. That's something I can work on. It's what I'm working on now. | John Scalzi |