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“Panic,” said T.J. But no one raised a hand. She explained. It came from the Greek god Pan: the god of the woods. He liked to trick people, to confuse and disorient them until they lost their bearings, and their minds. To panic, said T.J., was to make an enemy of the forest. To stay calm was to be its friend.”
― Liz Moore, The God of the Woods

“You don’t fuck around with the infinite.” —Mean Streets”
― Stephen King, It

“Some truly didn’t think about the fact that men and women were being murdered every day by the same government their children pledged allegiance to at school.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

“There has never been, in the history of all human interaction, a way for a woman to explain effectively that she’s calm when a man has suggested she isn’t.”
― Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Long Island Compromise