Quotables

“Her favorite stuffed animal, why didn’t I get it for her?”

Fritch, Texas, resident TYLER McCAIN, describing to CNN his regret over not retrieving his 3-year-old daughter’s treasured belongings before his family’s home burned down in one of several Panhandle wildfires in late February.

“I suspect we’re going to need a much bigger admissions committee.”

Albert Einstein College of Medicine professor PETER CAMPBELL, commenting to The Washington Post about the school’s new $1 billion endowment that will allow it to offer free tuition.

“We’ve had a few tumbleweeds, but nothing like this. … There’s nothing to do but laugh.”

JOHN YOUNG, a resident of South Jordan, Utah, which was inundated with piles of tumbleweed several feet high during a windstorm. Young told KSL-TV he awoke March 2 to find his front porch covered with the prickly plants.

“There was just something that seemed wrong about throwing my heart in the trash can.”

ASHLEY JEAN YEAGER, a 39-year-old who, following a 2022 heart transplant, donated her old heart to the Mütter Museum of anatomical specimens in Philadelphia. The museum has now paused anatomical donations while it reviews its display policies, The Wall Street Journal reported.