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My only complaint with this book is it’s hard to keep all the names straight

“‘Are you sad?’
‘No. Yes. A little, sometimes.’ (A lot, all the time.)
‘Have another sweet.’
‘Thanks’”

“Is ‘macheted’ a verb?” Amelia asked Julia.
“Don’t think so.”
Well, that was the end then, she was Americanizing words. Civilization would fall.”

— Can you help me?
— What do you need?
— I don’t know

“History doesn’t repeat, but it does «rhyme. One of the most famous share offerings from the South Sea Bubble of 1719-1720 was ‘A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is’”

“…their tough, unchanging forms conjured only in memory: a jewel box kept in a medicine cabinet in the attic of a house on the moon; that’s where their unchanging forms were kept.”

“It is unacceptable, all the stunned and anxious missing a person is asked to endure in life. It is not to be endured, not really.”

“[My parents]could not bear the full force and chaos of their own eccentricity, could not bear the full life of it,the complete course, all the stuff and ramifications. To see something out of line in their own children must have reminded them of all that they were and could not hide from.It must have reminded them of the deep and sorrowful loneliness of themselves, which they had tried so desperately not to suffer.”

“I understood that, for all the unusualness in their lives, all my parents had ever wanted was to be average, normal, useful, ordinary. They could not bear the full force and chaos of their own eccentricity, could not bear the full life of it, the complete course, all the stuff and ramifications. To see something out of line in their own children must have reminded them of all that they were and could not hide from."

“…but he laughed with us, and we all just sat there in the night traffic laughing in the uncontrolled, hysterical way of people who rarely got what they wanted in life though they also didn’t try very hard.”

“Though any adult can do that, make themselves wail like babies for the love that as children they had desired so, sought so, distorted themselves so to get but never got.”

“…what life of offices and dull tasks could have a moon in it flooding the sky and streets, without its seeming preposterous…”

Everyone had assumed that “Dread Pirate Roberts” had the most painstaking operational security imaginable. It turned out Ulbricht was protected by nothing more than an impenetrable shield of narcissism, and an apparent belief that he was too smart and virtuous to be caught.

Got to the Ross Ulbricht part of the story. Holy shit

“Wikipedia: Dunning-Kruger effect. From which another name for bitcoins, 'Dunning-Krugerrands.'"