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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.

Some seemed really glad to see the work go on, if somebody else would do it.

Slavery and Quakerism could not prosper together, and many of the Friends from New Garden and other settlements moved to the West.

One man grew rich without knowing why and another was ruined despite the most cautious calculations.

Girl is so dumb…

The description of this book says that the modern timeline takes place in California, but it is in Texas. How do you get something like that wrong in a book blurb?

He saw at once how foolish he had been himself to talk of suicide. The fortunes of war and life change quickly. One must never give in to despair.

But then wars would not occur unless they were fought by men too young and reckless to understand the risks they were taking.

The repeated mispronunciation of Potawatomi is painful.

I have to be honest, the only thing keeping me from DNFing this right now is the fact that I have it from NetGalley.

All power depends on force. All force depends on money.

Why do so many novels include completely pointless modern timelines?

Timeless wisdom: I know enough to know that you can’t do anything with a drug addict unless he wants to be cured.

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A third through this book and nothing has happened. 🥱

You can’t go in and be slaughtering everyone like a passel of King Henrys.

You could arrest sunlight for attempted murder out on the plains.

The mind is a wild liar and I don’t trust much in it that I find there.

The comparison of people literally fighting for their lives in concentration camps to modern pro-abortion movement definitely doesn’t work for me.

I doubt people who lived through WWII, when over 70 MILLION people died, would say that today “barbarity and indifference had reached new heights.”

Beyond the collective trauma lies buried guilt. And hatred of anything that might awaken it.

Second mention of Trump in a novel about WWII seems entirely unnecessary.

A skyscraper is simply a cathedral for people who, instead of believing in God, believe in money.

Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth.

Ooooohhhh, book 2 just became so much more clear to me.