The Kaiju Preservation Society
John Scalzi
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I tried being a vegan for a while, but I couldn’t live without cheese.” “They have vegan cheese.” “No, they don’t. They have shredded orange and white sadness that mocks cheese and everything it stands for.”
“It’s the twenty-first century; no one goes by Betsy anymore,” Tom said. “But even if they did, there’s usually context. If you’re saying, ‘Betsy has the results from the lab,’ it’s probably the human. If it’s ‘Betsy just got pissed off and burned down twenty thousand acres of jungle,’ it’s probably the kaiju.”
“So we’re the monster police, too?” I said to Tom. “Correct,” he replied. “The only real question is, who are the monsters?” “They ask that question in every monster movie, you know. It’s an actual trope.” “I know,” Tom said. “What does it say about us that it’s relevant every single time they ask it?”
“It was stupidly perfect how all my problems were suddenly solved with the strategic application of money.”
“That thing looks like H. P. Lovecraft’s panic attack.”
“What’s the RLH protocol?” I asked. “It means run like hell,”
“You have no idea how difficult it was for me to not say, ‘Welcome to Jurassic Park!’ to all of you just now.”
“Well, aren’t you a massive prick,” I said, quietly, under the roar of the helicopter. “What?” Sanders asked. “I said, ‘That’s a nifty trick.”
“It’s okay if we turned entire cities full of people into nuclear ash, but the idea of monsters having a nibble afterward was just too much.”
“I thought you liked reading books." "I do, but if you only read books because you have to, it becomes much less fun.”
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Book Keywords:
kaiju, monsters, human-nature
