Kasper Bertelsen

“No, sir. But even if they are, I’m inclined to go with them.” “For God’s sake, man—why?” The foreman peered at Cooper as if he were callow, not very bright. “South Carolina is my home. Those men speak up for it. No one else does, Mr. Main.”
― John Jakes, The North and South Trilogy: North and South / Love and War / Heaven and Hell

“Pigs MAY whistle, but they’ve poor mouths for it,”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams: Anne Shirley Series, Unabridged

“Is it because they all testify that we are never guaranteed a happy life, only life itself? …”
― John Jakes, The North and South Trilogy: North and South / Love and War / Heaven and Hell

“His younger brother looked to him for advice—wisdom—never realizing that older people were almost as uncertain of everything as Billy was, if not more.”
― John Jakes, The North and South Trilogy: North and South / Love and War / Heaven and Hell