Old Man's War Boxed Set #1 Quotes

“The problem with aging is not that it’s one damn thing after another—it’s every damn thing, all at once, all the time.”
― John Scalzi, Old Man's War Boxed Set I: Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, The Last Colony

“This,” Cloud said, and motioned around him. “Life. The universe. Everything.”
― John Scalzi, Old Man's War Boxed Set I: Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, The Last Colony

“Leave it to humans to bang rocks together,” Cainen said.”
― John Scalzi, Old Man's War Boxed Set I: Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, The Last Colony

“So someone could just come up and kill me, and there would be no legal repercussions?” “Well, no,” she said. “If someone were to murder you while you were legally dead, I believe that here in Ohio they could be tried for ‘disturbing a corpse.”
― John Scalzi, Old Man's War Boxed Set I: Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, The Last Colony

“What happens if I don’t leave the planet within seventy-two hours?” I said as I handed the paper back to the recruiter. “Nothing,” she said, taking the form. “Except that since you’re legally dead, all your belongings are split up according to your will, your health and life benefits are canceled or disbursed to your heirs and being legally dead, you have no legal right to protection under the law from everything from libel to murder.”
― John Scalzi, Old Man's War Boxed Set I: Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, The Last Colony