“It was so cold, blankets stopped working.”

Austin resident STEFANY RIVERA, 13, whose family lost power after a winter storm hit Texas in mid-February, according to The Wall Street Journal. Many Texas families went without electricity and heat for days amid subfreezing temperatures.

“My savings is gone. … There’s nothing I can do about it, but it’s broken me.”

SCOTT WILLOUGHBY, a 63-year-old resident of a Dallas suburb, telling The New York Times how his electric company charged him $16,752 after Texas’ winter storm. When cold weather upset the electric grid and drove up demand for power, some Texans faced astronomical wholesale prices under the state’s minimally regulated energy market.

“I would want to know how selling Mein Kampf doesn’t violate their religious beliefs, but selling my book does.”

Ethics & Public Policy Center President RYAN ANDERSON, after Amazon pulled his 2018 critique of transgenderism, When Harry Became Sally, from its online store on Feb. 21.

“Uh-oh.”

KIM BEEDE, a board member of Oakley Union Elementary School District in Oakley, Calif., after learning during an online board meeting that the meeting was being publicly livestreamed. Thinking they were speaking in private, board members had spent several minutes criticizing and joking about parents in their district. “They want to pick on us because they want their babysitters back,” one board member quipped. The entire board resigned amid a public outcry two days later.

“Father, we pray that their families would be comforted knowing that You are fighting on their behalf.”

KYLE ABTS, executive director of International Committee on Nigeria, in a prayer posted online on Feb. 15 for teenager Leah Sharibu and other girls held captive by Islamic terrorists. ICN co-hosted a week of prayer leading up to the three-year anniversary of Sharibu’s 2018 kidnapping from her school in Dapchi. Islamist groups like Boko Haram have abducted hundreds of teenage Nigerians, often forcing them to become wives to militants.