How we cite our quotes: (Story.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
The goblins didn't look away. Their mouths filled with saliva as they watched her. There was scant cover for them in the leafless hawthorns along the main road, and Kizzy should have seen them. (1.1.35)
Who says that the small town where Kizzy lives and goes to school is boring? They have all sorts of interesting inhabitants, including some creepy goblins that are really into stealing girls' souls.
Quote #2
They'd have said there was no "believing" involved. They knew, because Kizzy's grandmother had saved her sister from them one in the Old Country and lived to tell. She'd never tired of telling the story, how the goblins had tried to force her mouth open and cram in their unnatural fruit, how she'd kept her jaw clamped tight against them. (1.1.37)
Kizzy's family doesn't just tell folk tales and myths about magical beings for fun. She grows up with true stories about the magical creatures her family has encountered—especially the dangerous goblins that tried to steal Mairenni away.
Quote #3
But Kizzy felt a swelling of ghosts around her this time, a tide; her grandmother might have been there, but she wasn't alone. Kizzy froze in mid-step, chilled and startled, and looked up at Jack Husk. For a second some look passed through his sly eyes, some intelligence… a hint of a sneer? (1.3.30)
Even though Kizzy is completely focused on the cute boy that's taking her out on a breakfast picnic, she can't help but listen to what the ghosts are saying about goblins and being careful. After all, it's not every day that ghosts start whispering warnings in your ear.