Jason Scott Montoya

“But I'm doing a little better than my father did… When it's your turn, I hope you do a little better than me.” - Officer Miller, Last of Us, Season 2, Episode 6

“You've become more than your fear. Let that protect you.” - Cassian Andor

“Certainty masquerading as knowledge.” - Jesse

the Last of Us, S2E2

“You can’t heal something unless you’re brave enough to say it out loud. I’m scared though. I’m scared which is why I have to say it.” - Gail

The Last of Us, season 2, episode 1

“The most important number is 12%. That’s the share of Americans who say they have zero close friends, up from 3% in 1990. Meanwhile, half the country says they’re struggling with loneliness. These numbers took off when Apple put computers in our pockets, and they’ve been climbing ever since.”

"Flaws in the system will now become severe."

- Ian Malcolm

"In my community of Holocaust survivors, there were two groups; those who didn't die and those who came back to life.

And those who didn't die lived often very tethered to the ground, could not experience pleasure, could not trust, because when you're vigilant, worried, anxious, and insecure, you can't lift your head to go and take off in space and be playful and safe and imaginative.

Those who came back to life were those who understood the erotic as an antidote to death. They knew how to keep themselves alive." - Esther Perel

"A crisis of desire is often a crisis of imagination." - Esther Perel

Strand: This won’t end well, Madison. You think it’ll just be this one thing. But then you realize you can’t stop. I learned it the hard way. At the Tower. There was always just one more thing that I needed to do to keep it safe, and before I knew it, I was the thing people needed to be protected from.

S8: E11 “Fighting Like You”

“The point of the “retribution” tour against the likes of Cheney and Romney is to punish them for right-doing: They offended populist Republicans not by trying to overthrow the government or absconding with classified information or cheating on their taxes but simply by insisting on holding Trump accountable to the Constitution for his authoritarian lousiness.”

“If most voters cared about Trump’s illiberalism, America wouldn’t have reelected a coup-plotter on the off chance that he’ll bring the price of eggs down by a quarter. And right-wing propagandists have worked energetically and successfully for years, following Trump’s “DARVO” playbook, to try to convince the public that he’s forever being victimized by corrupt accusers who have conspired against Real America. If Cheney or Romney ends up indicted, plenty of Americans who’ve absorbed MAGA’s attacks on them will regard the criminal charges credulously. And among those who are skeptical, most ultimately won’t care that they’re being railroaded. Are egg prices down or aren’t they?”

“The goal won’t be to obtain criminal convictions; the goal will be to render the targets broke and miserable by forcing them to fight for their freedom in court.”