“If you are super rich, $20 is nothing to you … if you’re poor, $20 is a massive amount. And so the use of toll roads is very much about creating a system of transportation that is reliable for people who have the ability to pay the toll cost.” — Yonah Freemark, a senior research associate at the Washington, D.C.-based Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute, commenting on North Texas’ toll roads and the managed toll lanes. (Monday, The Dallas Morning News)

“I didn’t have much time to make a decision. I had to choose between prison and leaving Iran. With a heavy heart, I chose exile.” — A statement by Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, whose film “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” is competing in the Cannes Film Festival. Rasoulof said he was sentenced to eight years in prison, flogging and confiscation of property, which will add to a previous sentence. (Monday, Associated Press)

“They don’t go like a battering ram to attack the ship and sink it, and they might do so if that were their intention.” — Alfredo López, a marine biologist and spokesman for the Atlantic Orca Working Group, commenting on a group of killer whales that sunk a sailboat near the coast of Gibraltar (Tuesday, El País)

“We should not go back to business as usual, right? I have a child and a child on the way, My wife was scared out of her mind, not knowing what was going to happen, right? And nobody thanked us.” — Tyree Dean, an English teacher at Wilmer-Hutchins High School who was part of a walkout of students protesting the lack of security after a shooting incident at the school in April (Tuesday, KXAS-TV NBC5)

“It’s a wonderful celebration, and we hope … that Dorothy Jean inspires more students. … But this is still something so rare and unique.” — Leslie Manson, an Arizona State assistant professor, talking about Dorothy Jean Tillman II, a 17-year-old who just earned a doctorate in behavioral health. (Tuesday, ABC News)

“I was the only person I knew who wrote stories, though I didn’t tell them to anybody, and as far as I knew, at least for a while, I was the only person who could do this in the world.” — Canadian writer Alice Munro, in an interview after winning the Nobel Prize in literature in 2013. She died last week. (Tuesday, NPR)

“To live and work in Dallas is to love Dallas. … This is the right place to complete my service.” — Police Chief Eddie García, after the city announced that an agreement had been reached to keep him until 2027. (Thursday, The Dallas Morning News)

“People need to know that, you know, who they’re talking to on Instacart is not necessarily who’s going to show up at your house.” – “Law & Order” actor Angie Harmon who is suing Instacart after the delivery person allegedly shot her dog at her North Carolina home. (Thursday, The Dallas Morning News)

“The baby itself becomes a rounding error. It took us a while to wrap our heads around that.” — Dustin Marshall, an evolutionary biologist at Monash University, who discovered, along with his students, that the energy stored in a human baby’s tissues accounts for only about 4% of the total energy costs of pregnancy. The other 96% is extra fuel required by a woman’s own body. (Thursday, The New York Times)

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DALLAS – Dallas police are investigating after two women were killed, and a man was shot at an apartment complex early Saturday morning.

Police responded to the shooting at the Broadstone Paragon on Washington and Lemon Avenues in Old East Dallas at about 3 a.m.

Responding officers found all three victims with gunshot wounds.

Both women were pronounced dead. The male victim was taken to the hospital where police say he is now stable.

The names of the victims have not been released at this time.

DPD has not announced any arrests.

The investigation into the shooting is ongoing.