A worthy continuation to The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland, in which the heroine finds space to grow up gracefully. The themes and characters get a little darker, and the book ends with a hint of a sequel to come.
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Quotes:
For though, as we have said, all children are heartless, this is not precisely true of teenagers. Teenage hearts are raw and new, fast and fierce, and they do not know their own strength
You get the face you build your whole life, with work and loving and grieving and laughing and frowning.
“So much light, sweet girl, begins in the dark.”
Everything Must Be Paid For, Sooner Or Later.
Nothing could be quite that easy in Fairyland. It could be a Rule: Nothing is easy here. All traffic travels in the direction of most difficulty.
“First Law of Heroics.” The Monaciello grinned up at a confused September. “Someone has to tell you it’s impossible, or the Quest can’t go on.
“A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.
“Well, I use the metric system. It’s the only way to get really exact numbers.”
Forgiveness always takes practice to get right,
RULES OF FAIRYLAND-BELOW
BEWARE OF DOG
ANYTHING IMPORTANT COMES IN THREES AND SIXES
DO NOT STEAL QUEENS
A GIRL IN THE WILD IS WORTH TWO IN CHAINS
NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF TEMPTATION
EVERYTHING MUST BE PAID FOR SOONER OR LATER
WHAT GOES DOWN MUST COME UP
her daughter’s shadow had gone a deep, profound shade of green—just the color of the smoking jacket of a man she’d known long ago, when she was just a small girl.
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