Ike

“He was tempted to add something like I am allowed to coin terms but didn’t want things to get snarky this early in the meeting.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

“I think I’m in love,” she said. He clapped a bag over his mouth and threw up.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

“If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“The narration had lasted for the better part of an hour despite Markus’s increasingly frequent and obvious glances at his Swiss watch, and left all the others in a strange combination of spellbound, bored, horrified, and bemused.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves