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Zoe's Tale

Zoe's Tale
John Scalzi

Zoe's Tale is a science fiction novel by American writer John Scalzi. It is the fourth full-length book in the Old Man's War universe.

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“When you’re a kid, a rural, agriculturally-based colony town is a lot of fun to grow up in. It’s life on a farm, with goats and chickens and fields of wheat and sorghum, harvest celebrations and winter festivals. There’s not an eight- or nine-year-old kid who’s been invented who doesn’t find all of that unspeakably fun. But then you become a teenager and you start thinking about everything you might possibly want to do with your life, and you look at the options available to you. And then all farms, goats and chickens—and all the same people you’ve known all your life and will know all your life—begin to look a little less than optimal for a total life experience. It’s all the same, of course. That’s the point. It’s you who’s changed.”

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Source: Zoe's Tale (2008), Chapter 1 (pp. 27-28)

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“Sometimes I don’t know if my life is complicated, or if it’s that I just think too much about things.”

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Source: Zoe's Tale (2008), Chapter 7 (p. 76)

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“I guess I was just hoping there might be a way to do things other than the way that ends up with everyone getting killed.”

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Source: Zoe's Tale (2008), Chapter 21 (p. 302)

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““This is Major Perry’s house?”
“I hope so,” I said. “All his stuff is here.””

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Source: Zoe's Tale (2008), Chapter 1 (p. 23)

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“Eight-year-olds can switch into acquisition mode pretty quickly.”

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Source: Zoe's Tale (2008), Chapter 4 (p. 53)

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