Madeline Maher

“This place has been here from the beginning and it will be here in the end: Adams County, hacked from the wilderness by naming's brutal baptism long before Illinois was a state or a territory or even so much as a dream.”
― Jon Clinch, Finn

“He is between worlds, this boy. Between the river and the town, between the hogshead and the house, between the taint of his mother and the stain of his pap. He knows some things that he can never say, not even to himself.”
― Jon Clinch, Finn

“A feeling of unfathomable loneliness settled upon her.”
― O.E. Rølvaag, Giants in the Earth

“Among all of the powers and principalities, there is none on earth so mighty as a man's unsatisfied desire.”
― Jon Clinch, Finn