Sara Engelstad

“If she screws up this delivery, that means she's double-crossing God, who may or may not exist, and in any case who is capable of forgiveness. The Mafia definitely exists and hews to a higher standard of obedience.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

“I am an Aleut.” “Oh, I've never heard of that.” “That's because we've been fucked over,” the big scary Aleut says, “worse than any other people in history.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

“He is full of adrenaline, his nerves are shot, and his mind is cluttered up with free-floating anxiety-floating around on an ocean of generalized terror.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

“It’s not about how women are deficient. It’s more about how men are deficient. Our social deficiencies, lack of perspective, or whatever you want to call it, is what enables us to study one species of dragonfly for twenty years, or sit in front of a computer for a hundred hours a week writing code. This is not the behavior of a well-balanced and healthy person, but it can obviously lead to great advances in synthetic fibers. Or whatever.”
― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon