How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
"I should not mind it, for it a long, long chain; but the knowledge of it irks me, and I miss my father's land." (1.187)
We really feel for the nameless slave girl (who turns out to be Lady Una) after reading this. She was stolen from her home while very young, so the witch-woman Madame Semele is the only family she's known for most of her life. And she's both physically and verbally abusive on top of that. Ugh.
Quote #2
Mrs. Hempstock and Mrs. Thorn sipped their tea. And so it was settled.
Dunstan Thorn was married in June to Daisy Hempstock. (1.215-216)
Aw, got to love it when your mom arranges your marriage for you. Mother knows best, right? In this case, it makes sense, since Dunstan was more or less courting Daisy before all that stuff went down at the Faerie Market. So it's not like they're total strangers or anything—their moms are just picking up the slack.
Quote #3
Sometimes Tristran would look up to see his mother staring at him intently, as if she were trying to tease some secret from his face. (2.7)
It must be a little odd for your mother to act like that around you. It seems like Daisy Thorn acts very distantly toward her son, and he has no idea why. Possibly he hasn't done the math that he was born just six months after his parents got married, and six months before his little sister Louisa was born. Hmmm…