“I stood behind my father, resting my chin on his shoulder as he read the newspaper, and pointed to a map of Croatia splashed with red and blue dots indicating the opposing armies. He’d already told me once but I couldn’t keep it straight.”
“Ada Lovelace (née Augusta Byron) was given a famous name before she made her own. Her father was Lord Byron, the bad boy of English Romantic poetry, whose epic mood swings could be topped only by his string of scandalous affairs—affairs with women, men, and his half sister.”
“The con-artist’s job is to hoodwink the enemy instead of slugging it out with him.”
“Today I am a whore. But it’s only because a meteor is about to hit the earth. It’s the size of El Capitan.”
