“I'm committed enough to the 'no diets' principle of my own eating disorder recovery to resist the temptation to chew ice and exercise obsessively again, but that doesn't mean I'm deliriously happy with the way I look 24/7, no matter how many defiant crop-top pics I post to Instagram.”— Emma Specter, vogue.com
“Now it’s been more than a year and I don’t know how much longer it will be before I can get back to Gagopa, or if it will even be there once I can.”— Alyse Whitney, grubstreet.com
“There's no need to hunt the whales anymore. There's no need to eat them. The young generation born after 2000 don't really do it.”— Eva Björk Káradóttir, nbcnews.com
“France has decided to suspend the use of AstraZeneca PLC's Covid-19 vaccine, joining a number of European countries that have paused the rollout of the vaccine after a small number of blood-clotting cases raised concerns.”— Cristina Roca, marketwatch.com
“Vaccination is imminent; spring is coming. Summer 2021 may be among the horniest yet.”— Katie Heaney, thecut.com
“You’re vaccinated but none of your other friends are. Can you ditch your mask around them? Answer: No.”— Hannah Smothers, vice.com
“And so it continues. This is my life now and maybe it is yours too. I honestly don’t hate it, though I don’t think it behooves me to analyse it.”— Charlotte Owen, bustle.com
“As the pandemic’s first wave crested over New York, Governor Cuomo issued a state executive order on March 20, halting all eviction proceedings 11 days before marshals would have knocked on Russell’s door.”— Bridget Read, thecut.com
“Making bread is closer to sex than to cooking. It’s about diving in with your hands, massaging it, making it rise. And there is no fast climax; it takes at least 24 hours to make decent bread. All this time you have to care for it lovingly while you wait. And wait.”— Albertina Coacci, nytimes.com
“Huang thinks COVID vaccination provides something many of us have missed throughout the pandemic: an excuse to post a selfie.”— Katie Heaney, thecut.com
“Yet, folks are still continuing to put on their party pants and get together sans masks, indoors, without social distancing.”— Sara Li, cosmopolitan.com
“The photographer who got sick after shooting the COVID-positive groom said her experiences throughout the pandemic have left her a little depressed.”— Emily McCullar, texasmonthly.com
“Watching the vaccine being administered delivers a shot of hope. We might finally be getting somewhere.”— Bridget Read, thecut.com
“So when the droplet gets into the fibers of the mask, it gets trapped. This is not that hard to understand, everybody. That's why we have rules about wearing a mask.”— Bill Nye, buzzfeed.com
“It’s a small step from belittling people who don’t take sufficient coronavirus precautions to belittling people for contracting Covid-19.”— Aaron E. Carroll, nytimes.com
“We don’t know where this will lead. The world is not happy with this arrangement. But no great love story was ever written without a villain.”— Susan Verghese, psiloveyou.xyz