Marlin Forbes

“Maybe we should walk south to Africa,” the woman said with a smile. “That’s always been where the waves of human evolution come from.”
― John Joseph Adams, The End Has Come

“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

“This book is dedicated to you, the reader. I spent years digging this shaky tunnel down into the most diseased and horrible pits of my soul, then asked you to come visit. You said, “yes.” That was very stupid, and you’ll almost certainly die down here, but thank you.”
― Robert Brockway, Kill All Angels

“He’d often thought that life would be much easier if women’s nipples swelled in the same proportions as penises when their dander was up. Even he wouldn’t be able to miss the signal of long nipple fingers pointing him out as the object of desire.”
― Michael Logan, World War Moo