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“ Destiny gets compressed, you know, into just that small fraction of a second you have right in front of you at any one time. And there’s nothing romantic about keeping your head down to avoid getting shot, or trying to save a friend who’s been injured, or coming face to face with a creature who is as smart and mean and as terrified of dying as you are, and who wants to make sure that if someone is left on the ground there, it’s you and not it. ”

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The failure mode of clever is “asshole.

~ John Scalzi

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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

John Scalzi Cemetery Death Loss Mourning

In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere and b) in my opinion as a father, there’s not a damn thing wrong with my child encountering gay folks in her literature, because see point a).

~ John Scalzi

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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

John Scalzi Fear