Marlin Forbes

“I hate that I’ve become one of those old men who visits a cemetery to be with his dead wife. When I was (much) younger I used to ask Kathy what the point would be. A pile of rotting meat and bones that used to be a person isn’t a person anymore; it’s just a pile of rotting meat and bones. The person is gone—off to heaven or hell or wherever or nowhere. You might as well visit a side of beef. When you get older you realize this is still the case. You just don’t care. It’s what you have.”
― John Scalzi, Old Man's War

“I don’t know, you can just tell when somebody’s from the Midwest. They always look incomplete without a tractor.”
― Robert Brockway, The Empty Ones

“I didn’t mind getting old when I was young, either,” I said. “It’s the being old now that’s getting to me.”
― John Scalzi, Old Man's War

“There was a general belief that a long and unpleasant holiday was of crucial importance to one’s development as a human being.”
― William Sutcliffe, Are You Experienced?