https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict Collective Mahi en-us 2022-05-27 20:55:13 UTC 2025-09-24 01:56:06 UTC hello@padlet.com MsPlowman https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566319 ‘The simple fact he has a destination is enough for Lev. It’s more than Lev has. Destination implies a future.’]]> 2022-05-27 20:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566319 MsPlowman https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566320 ‘Lev was terrified by these people, and yet he felt a kinship with them. They understood the misery of being betrayed by life.’ pg 284]]> 2022-05-27 20:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566320 MsPlowman https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566321  ‘“Don’t move the angel says. Connor recognizes the voice….’ Chapter 65]]> 2022-05-27 20:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566321 MsPlowman https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566322 “His family was influential. They were not to be trifled with. He felt certain that his face would be the biggest thing on the front page. When it wasn’t, he didn’t know what to think.” (pg 68)

]]> 2022-05-27 20:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566322 MsPlowman https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566324  ‘The other tithes know Lev is different. They’ve never seen a fallen tithe before, much less one who, like the prodigal son, has renounced his sins and returned to the fold.’ pg 281]]> 2022-05-27 20:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566324 MsPlowman https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566325 of Lev: ‘If he himself had been this clever, this honourable, and had found this kind of nerve when he was a kid, perhaps he’d be more than just a pawnbroker.’ pg 158]]> 2022-05-27 20:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566325 MsPlowman https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566327 ‘Good, let them think he’s grateful. Let them think they’re earning his trust… once they’re lulled into a false sense of security, he’ll make sure they both get exactly what they deserve.’]]> 2022-05-27 20:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566327 MsPlowman https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566328 ‘Lev stands there, impotent, unable to move, unable to process this. Why is Pastor Dan telling him to run?’]]> 2022-05-27 20:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566328 MsPlowman https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566329 ‘All Lev’ knows is that someday soon the world will suffer a small part of the loss and the emptiness and the utter disillusionment he feels inside.’ pg 284 

]]> 2022-05-27 20:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566329 MsPlowman https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566332 ’Lev dodges through endless shades of pitch. The better to run. The better to hide. The better to lose himself now that darkness is his friend.’]]> 2022-05-27 20:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566332 MsPlowman https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566333 of Lev: ‘Still the kid shows no sign of fear or disappointment. He just lays the bracelet on the worn wooden counter with that same Princely gaze.’ pg 158 ]]> 2022-05-27 20:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566333 MsPlowman https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566334 “It’s no use trying to explain to this godless pair what tithing is all about.  How giving of one’s self is the ultimate blessing … Save him? … they’ve damned him.” (pg42)]]> 2022-05-27 20:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566334 MsPlowman https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566336  ‘Connor’s unwinding must not be allowed… and it’s in Lev’s power to stop it.’ ]]> 2022-05-27 20:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566336 MsPlowman https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566337  ‘It’s all too much, but in some strange way it’s not enough. There’s got to be more. More food. More dancing. More time.’ thinks Lev. 

]]> 2022-05-27 20:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566337 MsPlowman https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566338 ‘“I’m staying” Lev says slowly, “because someone has to witness what happens in Joplin. Someone’s got to understand why you did it.”’

]]> 2022-05-27 20:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566338 MsPlowman https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566339 Lev’s brother Marcus says, ‘“What I’m not allowed to talk about it? Oh, that’s right - this is a celebration. I almost forgot.”’

]]> 2022-05-27 20:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566339 MsPlowman https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566340   ‘They loved God more than they loved me. And I hate them for it’ pg 230 

]]> 2022-05-27 20:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566340 MsPlowman https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566341  ‘...his arrival at the graveyard is less important than where his thoughts resided. They resided in places colder and darker than the many places he hid.’ Chapter 35]]> 2022-05-27 20:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566341 MsPlowman https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566343   ‘Right now Lev feels like no one. This is the true meaning of alone: Levi Jedediah Calder suddenly realising he no longer exists.’ ]]> 2022-05-27 20:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566343 MsPlowman https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566344 ‘Lev is amazed at the depth of his own fury - but he’s becoming less and less frightened of it. He tells himself that’s a good thing.’ Chapter 35]]> 2022-05-27 20:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566344 MsPlowman https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566346 ‘These things will stay with Lev for the rest of his life. He knows he’s been changed by this moment, transformed in some deep and frightening way. Wherever his journey now takes him it doesn’t matter, because he has already arrived there in his heart. He’s become like the briefcase on the ground - full of gems yet void of light, so nothing sparkles, nothing shines.’ Chapter 31]]> 2022-05-27 20:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566346 MsPlowman https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566347 ‘Lev could survive on his own now. He’s gotten street-smart enough. He could do it without Cy-fi.’]]> 2022-05-27 20:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566347 MsPlowman https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566348 2022-05-27 20:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2202566348 MsPlowman https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2203199489 2022-05-29 01:01:25 UTC https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2203199489 MsPlowman https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2203204694 ‘Lev remembers that. Even as the mob was crashing down the gate, there were dozens of Unwinds going back into the wreckage with him.’ Chapter 68]]> 2022-05-29 01:22:26 UTC https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2203204694 MsPlowman https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2203204768 ‘You think maybe I can believe in that God too?’ Chapter 68]]> 2022-05-29 01:22:47 UTC https://padlet.com/MsPlowman/zgewmqkartu3aict/wish/2203204768