An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (The Carls, #1)

by Hank Green

Being annoyed by carefully crafted internet personas was part of my carefully crafted internet persona.

The power that each of us has over complete strangers to make them feel terrible and frightened and weak is amazing.

pundits don’t want to talk about what’s happened; they want to use what’s happened to talk about the same things they talk about every day.

Power only does all its business of empowering when it’s perceived as a difference between the power of those nearby and, even more important, the power one previously had.

I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of Occam’s razor but, basically, it’s a principle that the simplest solution tends to be the correct one. It’s BS.

Hank Green doesn’t miss

Here’s a hint: It’s not really “news” until they stop running ads.

Humans are terrible at believing reality.

when a radical extremist stabs someone in the back, the only person at fault is the radical extremist.

Seems obvious when she says it, and yet...

The most insidious part of fame for April wasn’t that other people dehumanized her; it was that she dehumanized herself.