Catfish

“In Russia, meanwhile, dedicated young people kept trying to kill the tsar.”
― Ian Frazier, Travels in Siberia

“She was saying goodbye and she didn't even know it.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Junk science props up totalitarian regimes. And totalitarian regimes produce junk science.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

“Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.”
― Neal Stephenson