Tim OBrien

“—something in her back seat gulps, very softly, Da-dump.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

“An oft-told joke: a statistician drowned crossing a river that was only three feet deep on average.”
― Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't

“For most of the past century, your odds of being killed by a cougar were about the same as your odds of being killed by a filing cabinet. Snowplows kill twice as many Canadians as grizzly bears do.”
― Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

“She could not envision a God who demanded such particularity of belief, whose mercy and forgiveness were confined to such a precise segment of humankind.”
― G. Willow Wilson, The Bird King