The Sagan Diary Quotes

“You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.”
― John Scalzi, The Sagan Diary

“Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.”
― John Scalzi, The Sagan Diary

“Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.”
― john scalzi, The Sagan Diary

“There is a moment of surface tension when a knife blade presents its demand and the flesh honors it. An instant of pressure before the puncture, the rip before the slide, a small eternity easy to miss but impossible to ignore if you’ve felt it before. I lived in that moment a great while for the small sliver of time it was there.”
― John Scalzi, The Sagan Diary

“I do not mind when you tell me what you want and put that first instead of last.”
― John Scalzi, The Sagan Diary

“Their lives were their own, and in their way they loved and feared and wondered and hoped. They did not expect me to be the end of all of that.”
― John Scalzi, The Sagan Diary

“In the end I am who I am. I am what I have made myself and what has been made of me. Part of who I am is who you are too; I have given you me as well. I would take your name and hold it in me, and whisper my name in your ear.”
― John Scalzi, The Sagan Diary

“What I fear is diminishment, and subtle change, and the moment in which a life without you becomes a sustainable thought.”
― John Scalzi, The Sagan Diary

“There is a saying along the lines of not trying to teach a pig to sing because it wastes your time and annoys the pig. I want you to know how many times I have stood in pig-filled rooms, and longed to annoy. I”
― John Scalzi, The Sagan Diary