Seveneves

by Neal Stephenson

“Maybe that’s what a leader is, Dinah. The one person who can’t—who shouldn’t—share her problems with anyone else. It’s sort of an old-fashioned idea.

“It is not unheard of. Moira, PCA, it is good to see you up here.” PCA was an abbreviation for “present circumstances aside” and had become a staple of Facebook, Twitter, and the like.