Then you're seventy-five, friends are dead, and you've replaced at least one major organ: you have to pee four times a night, and you can't go up a flight a stairs without being little winded -- and your're told you're in pretty good shape for your age. [..], in a decade you'll be eighty-five, and the only difference between you and a raisin will be that while you're both wrinkled and without a prostate, the raisin never had a prostate to begin with. John Scalzi
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More Quotes By John Scalzi
  1. The failure mode of clever is “asshole.

  2. 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.

  3. 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).

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

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

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