How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
She looked across the great plain of floor where, in the distance, the stairs mounted. "Another world above," she thought, "world on world…" and shivered slightly. (12.5)
See, worlds—or homes—are like Russian nesting dolls. The borrower's home is within Great-Aunt Sophy's home, which is within England, which is home in the whole wide world. Arrietty could never possibly run out of places to explore.
Quote #8
Homily screamed then. But this time it was a real scream, loud and shrill and hearty; she seemed almost to settle down in her scream, while her eyes stared up, half interested, into empty lighted space. There was another ceiling, she realized, away up above them—higher, it seemed than the sky. (15.11)
Homily is first scared, then fascinated. In fact, we have to say, her reaction is super similar to her own daughter's when she first discovers the wider world.
Quote #9
One by one Mrs. Driver picked things out—with many shocked gasps, cries of amazement, and did-you-evers. (17.29)
Oh, now here's a switch. While most of the time our small protagonists are gazing in wonder at humans' everyday objects, here's a human being awestruck by borrowers' stuff. This is a total reversal of what has come before.