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There comes a time in every man’s life when he stops looking forward and starts looking back.

Does every food have to be identified as vegan? Can't chili just be chili?

If the death of one of these girls is supposed to be tragic, they shouldn't both be written as insufferable characters.

She lived in a ‘wilderness camp”….for a year….learning about surviving outside….but doesn’t know how to swim???

People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.

Alexandra often said that if her mother were cast upon a desert island, she would thank God for her deliverance, make a garden, and find something to preserve.

The cruelty of love is that it outlives the anger and the suffering and the clawing blame.

If a mother's love inoculates one against the harm the world can so casually throw around, what does a mother's failure to protect do?

I promise myself to live in the now with the people who love me best because time is short.

Sometimes, I'm so preoccupied with my own tragedy, I forget that others also suffer. It's a good reminder that the world is littered with mundane, everyday tragedies. It's a wonder we go on.

Which details the brain chooses to remember and which it discards is a mystery.

Am I the only one who finds stories of teenagers discovering/exploring their sexuality profoundly boring?

Oh, how history repeats itself. Family patterns, even those we have no awareness of, never die.

I read a lot. I think a lot. I feel myself waiting. I just don’t know for what.

Sweet Christ…it doesn’t bear thinking upon… And yet, for a long, silent minute, we did, indeed, think upon that dreadful possibility.

I feel like this is as relevant today as it was in the 1890s.

Cooper demands a more progressive form of colorblindness than most are asking for in 2026. I wonder if she would be disappointed.

Torrey had closely followed the (abolitionist) movement, while on occasion also discovering that plenty of northerners had no objection to slavery - particularly if the alternative was accepting black people as equals.

Toni has me literally laughing out loud 😂

The goal of the two swashbuckling abolitionists was not just to help people by the score escape from slavery and start a new life in the north. They hoped their tactics might add up to a strategy: that by stealing the human assets of the enslavers, they might destroy the slaveholders' faith in the profitability of treating people as property.

Although their destitution was extreme, I heard no murmurs or complaints. Their hearts seemed full of praise to God for their deliverance from slavery; they regarded it as an answer to the prayers they had sent up so often in their days of cruel bondage.

I am opposed to the whole system of slavery, in all its heinous forms, and conscientiously believe it to be a sin against God and a crime against man to chatelize a human being, and reduce God's image to the level of a brute, to be bought and sold in the market as cattle or swine.

Already the wielder of irresponsible power - the awful power over a human soul - has warned the heart-broken husband that he is to be sold; the last drop of his blood may be scourged out on far Southern plantations, till his soul is freed by the Great Emancipator and goes to its God.

There was never a reunion of the family on earth, but let us hope there will be a reunion in heaven, without the loss of one. There all their wrongs with be righted, and their benighted souls will expand in the light and freedom of eternity.

This chapter about how much effort Coffin put into obtaining goods that were produced without slave labor is convicting & makes me want to be more careful about what countries I support with my purchases.

Not totally loving the introduction of our MC as a teenage bully who believes he was justified every time he beat someone up, but I will assume that this gets better.

The free states furnished a good market for the products of the South and made slave labor valuable to the master.

He saw the Germans as focused entirely on the outputs of labor, rather than any kind of spiritual life or development of moral character, which was a sort of disease that he feared was spreading from Germany across the learned nations of the world.

What was a miracle yesterday becomes a habit today.