Wayward (Wanderers, #2)

by Chuck Wendig

The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness. —Robert Green Ingersoll

Brilliant qoute. Much the same reason an oppressive government keeps its citizenry in the dark with deceptions and half truths.

The internet—the saying went that a lie traveled halfway around the world by the time the truth got its pants on, and the internet only made that faster. The internet gave wings to every lie, while the truth was stuck on the tarmac.

He’d loved the Decatur Book Festival, too, and the way it got bigger every year and showed how a whole town loved something so simple and so pure as reading books.

Civilization is a collectively agreed-upon series of behaviors. It’s all a game of pretend. Actors on a stage performing the same play,