Thad Wandersee

“He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had left for a long time with foreigners in South America. He was like a person who had been somewhere that other people are not likely to go or had done something that others are not apt to do.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“The goodness of people depends on the intentions of their brains and not on their religion or ancestry.”
― Merlin Franco, A Dowryless Wedding

“As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle

“But there were alternative media outlets. Oh sure, and you know who listens to them? Pansy, overeducated know-it-alls, and you know who listens to them? Nobody! Who’s going to care about some PBS-NPR fringe minority that’s out of touch with the mainstream? The more those elitist eggheads shouted “The Dead Are Walking,” the more most real Americans tuned them out.”
― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War