The Human Division (Old Man's War, #5)

by John Scalzi

“I’m a ‘the glass is half-empty and filled with poison’ kind of guy, actually,” Wilson said.

However, one always led with being nonbribable. It gave those attempting to bribe a sense of accomplishment.

“It sounds like you’re having a moment of existentialist crisis here, Hart, if you don’t mind me saying.” “Maybe I am,” Hart said. “I’m trying to decide what I want to be when I grow up. A nice thing to wonder about when you’re thirty.” “I don’t think it matters what age you are when you figure it out,” Brous said. “I think the important thing is to figure it out before someone else tells you what you want to be, and they get it wrong.”

But the point is that the past is the past and you let things go because you can’t change them anyway.

Here’s to being right all the time. May God and history forgive us.”

He decided he’d rather die as a fundamentally decent human being than live as the sort of asshole who’d tear out someone’s liver to get into an escape pod.