Everyone Remain Calm Quotes

“The sun was climbing behind them, over the alley, the three-flats, my city. I thought of that morning in New Orleans and how much fun I’d had. I thought of my students and what I wanted to teach them about writing, and all of a sudden, I felt that click: when avoiding your life becomes more difficult than actually living it. “Fine,” I told the Drum Master. “But no ‘Saints Go Marching In.’” His feather nodded and, in one fluid motion, he lifted up on his toes and dropped his whole body. Humboldt Park didn’t know what hit it.”
― Megan Stielstra, Everyone Remain Calm

“I want to find my own feelings in someone else’s experiences. I want to live lives I couldn’t possibly have lived, exist in a reality that can’t possibly be real—that’s what a story can do.”
― Megan Stielstra, Everyone Remain Calm

“It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.” “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.” “How vain it is to sit down and write when you have not stood up to live.” —and now picture me nearly two decades later: in my pajamas, in New Orleans, reciting Thoreau’s words over and over as Abe gave me the address. What would Henry say? He’d say, Get your ass to the Funky Butt. (Except he probably wouldn’t say ass.)”
― Megan Stielstra, Everyone Remain Calm