{"author":"John Scalzi","author_id":"John+Scalzi","total_quotes":51,"quotes":[{"text":"She was my friend. Briefly, she was my lover. She was braver than I ever would have been in the moment of death. And I bet she was a hell of a shooting star.","author":"John Scalzi","tags":["braver","death","friend","hell","lover","moment","shooting","star"],"id":8283,"author_id":"John+Scalzi"},{"text":"Dreher laments we now live in a “post-Christian” America, but he’s wrong. The Americans who are standing with their loved ones and neighbors are in fact doing exactly what Jesus asked them to do, when he said that we should love each other as we love ourselves. It’s possible, however, that we live in a post-accepting-bigotry-cloaking-itself-in-the-raiments-of-Christ America. And, you know. I can live in that America just fine.","author":"John Scalzi","tags":["america","bigotry","christ","christianity","fellowship","gay-marriage","glbt-rights","jesus","love","love-thy-neighbor","social-justice"],"id":17909,"author_id":"John+Scalzi"},{"text":"I think back to the day I stood before my wife's grave for the final time, and turned away from it without regret, because I knew that what she was was not contained in that hole in the ground. I entered a new life and found her again, in a woman who was entirely her own person. When this life is done, I'll turn away from it without regret as well, because I know she waits for me, in another, different life.","author":"John Scalzi","tags":["death","death-of-a-loved-one","love","metaphor"],"id":33685,"author_id":"John+Scalzi"},{"text":"When you're a kid all you want to do is be somewhere else.","author":"John Scalzi","tags":["adolescence","childhood","wanderlust"],"id":45941,"author_id":"John+Scalzi"},{"text":"Jack Holloway told me he would get the son of a bitch who killed my child and the mate of my child,' Papa continued. 'Jack Holloway did get that son of a bitch. Jack Holloway got you. You are the man who killed my child. Get off my planet, you son of a bitch.","author":"John Scalzi","tags":["in-your-face","justice","smackdown"],"id":49921,"author_id":"John+Scalzi"},{"text":"You can’t afford anthropomorphic biases when some of the aliens most like us would rather make human hamburgers than peace.","author":"John Scalzi","tags":["afford","aliens","anthropomorphic","biases","hamburgers","human","make","peace","rather","would"],"id":51284,"author_id":"John+Scalzi"},{"text":"Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.","author":"John Scalzi","tags":["fear"],"id":71344,"author_id":"John+Scalzi"},{"text":"Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.","author":"John Scalzi","tags":["fear"],"id":73184,"author_id":"John+Scalzi"},{"text":"You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.","author":"John Scalzi","tags":["choice","love","separation"],"id":100029,"author_id":"John+Scalzi"},{"text":"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.","author":"John Scalzi","tags":["cemetery","death","loss","mourning"],"id":111205,"author_id":"John+Scalzi"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":51,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}