How to Be Eaten

by Maria Adelmann

“I believe technology should optimize reality, not the other way around,” he explained. “If you have enough smart objects—if your objects are smart enough—they will know your every desire, and you’ll never have to look at a screen again.”

The word ‘cyan’ derives from ‘cyanide.’ Test a solution for cyanide with iron sulfate and you get Prussian blue, the first modern color.

My parents would rather have me murdered by a quote-on-quote genius than work at a quote-on-quote Hooters.

I’ve long thought. If it’s beautiful or sweet, it will ruin you.

I’m wary of gifts. Nothing is free. You always pay for it later.

“Tragedy isn’t capital,” says Gretel. “It doesn’t buy you anything. It doesn’t automatically make you a better person. And it certainly doesn’t make people fall in love with you.”