“Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.”
“Always behave like a duck- keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath.”
“It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.”
“In popular culture, detached irony and cynicism have ceded ground to an emphasis on sincerity and authenticity. The “too cool to care” attitude that typifies Generation X has become “cool to care” for Millennials. This New Sincerity has become the vehicle for a resurgence in moral storytelling in popular culture.”
“… Shannon’s fingers itched to smash the man in the face. Inside his head he kept telling himself, Keep cool, baby, absolutely cool.”
“I'm totally cool. I'm totally calm, and I'm totally cool. My calm is exceeded only by my cool. Which is total. Here we go.”