The Ghost Brigades
John Scalzi
Top 10 Best Quotes
“To everyone who thinks writing a sequel should be easy because you've already clreated the universe: Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha! Heh. No.”
“Colonel, I'm giving you a direct order. Eat the fucking cookie.”
“Every creature has a survival instinct. It looks like fear but it’s not the same thing. Fear isn’t the desire to avoid death or pain. Fear is rooted in the knowledge that what you recognize as yourself can cease to exist. Fear is existential.”
“Occam’s razor theory of combat: The simplest way of kicking someone’s ass was usually the correct one.”
“Yes, he's an equal opportunity asshole," Szilard said. "And he's aware of it, which he thinks means it's okay.”
“It was interesting what you could do, when your enemy was officially your ally. And unaware you knew it was your enemy.”
“Imagine waking up and finding your first and last view of the world was a shotgun barrel. That’d be a hell of a life.”
“At least one tribe, the Geln, strongly opposed attacking the Colonial Union, since humans were reasonably strong, distressingly tenacious and not especially principled when they felt threatened.”
“Two classics stuck with them. Ender’s Game delighted them all; here were soldiers who were just like them, except smaller. The main character was even bred to fight alien species like they were. The next day the members of the 8th greeted each other with the salutation ::Ho, Ender,:: until Brahe told them to knock it off and pay attention.”
“The supply transport’s on autopilot most of the way down anyway. I’m just on board so that if it crashes, they can say someone died.”
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writing, humorous, science-fiction, humor, sequels
