“It's been kind of a weird, like, 75 days? Something like that? I lost count.”

“I've been making TikTok videos. I will say, I'm blown away by the creativity I see on that app, and just in general, from people that have been forced inside. And really the creativity just blows my mind.”

“There's a moment in our cultural history happening when allies are needed and voices are needed and bodies are needed. And I can't contribute to that in the way that I would want.”

“My sister was an essential worker for a long time during the quarantine period, and she ended up moving down to our basement. For a very long time, the only way we would see her is if we were out in the backyard at a bonfire- like maybe once a week, we would do that- and the rest of the time she was in the basement and we would put food at the top of the stairs so she could get it.”

“Imma say my prayers and Imma watch Scooby Doo.”

“The crushing existential despair is not terrific.”

“…I've actually been playing more Dungeons and Dragons than I've ever been able to. Any player or DM will tell you that the biggest enemy in Dungeons Dragons isn't a dragon. It's people's schedules.”

“…I can only imagine what Juan in like the pandemics of, I don't know, whenever the Spanish flu was. Like what that Juan would have done because without connection, without Internet, without Netflix, without something to—That Juan would've had a rough time.”

“I was supposed to do the London Marathon this year. That's probably not going to happen. We were gonna try and go to Cooperstown. That's not gonna happen.”

“…even if I wasn't pregnant and the world was 100 percent healthy, I would cope by staying as busy as I could and ignoring it until it overwhelmed me. But there's nothing to do. And so all you can do is just work on yourself.”

“I think a takeaway for me is an affirmation that your worth as a human being, or as an artist even, is not tied to your productivity, is not tied to your output, and that you have worth because you exist, because you're here.”

“I'm all right. I'm drinking too much. I'm gaining a little bit of weight, but I've been also cooking more, and attempting to work out more, and attempting to just find what it means to live in this way for a little while. So, yeah, it's been weird.”

“I stay the most connected to my therapist because she's been helping me deal with a lot of like... I have been kind of distancing myself from friends. Not on purpose, just unconsciously. I'll just not answer calls or I won't text people.”

“So imagine Shelli at like 2 a.m. writing a 10-minute play on a farm and three raccoons came up on me and I was like, ‘Cool. This will never happen again. Take note.’ Or like, the other time I was walking down the farm jotting down ideas and a possum came out of a tree. And I was like, ‘Wow, you're the only thing I've seen all today. Do you want to talk about my play? Do you want a discussion?’ “

"I don't know how I feel about people today."

“I'm not just running away and going to a bar with friends. I'm sitting and processing and meditating and really taking in what's happening.”

“I think that's one hundred percent the hardest part to me is not knowing when I'll see my sisters again.”

“Like we're introverts but we're not this introverted. You know? There's a difference.”

“I feel like I was long overdue for a break anyway…”

“I would hate for the world to open up and for all of us to get back on our hamster wheel and not to stop and smell the flowers that we have.”