Miami

This was a clusterf--k.

— Sculptor Alan Cottrill told the Miami New Times about the chaos behind building the statue and the fallout with the crypto investors who commissioned it.

We never stole a dollar.

— Jonathan Santana, the lead detective on the real-life case, said.

I love playing football, and I will keep doing it until I can't anymore.

— Messi, in a YouTube interview with Pollo Alvarez about Argentina's national team

Yeah, I get it. In other words, I’m still dying. But not as quickly as you would originally suppose.

— Michael Tilson Thomas, in a 2023 interview with Mark Swed, the Times' classical-music critic

Our track record in serving this vulnerable population is unmatched. Yet, the Archdiocese of Miami’s Catholic Charities’ services for unaccompanied minors has been stripped of funding and will be forced to shut down within three months, said Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski, adding that the action was "baffling" given the potential challenges of launching a similar program in the future.— Comment on the funding cut to Catholic Charities services for unaccompanied minors, made by Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski.

All of the substances are just a cope trying to feel neurotypical while being in public, but obviously that isn't a real solution.

— Clavicular, in a post on X about his suspected overdose in Miami