How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"She is real," Parsefall said in a thread of a voice. "Grisini must've—"
Lizzie Rose's fingers tightened. "He couldn't have, Parse. People can't do things like that. Magic spells—and evil magicians—" There was a brief, pregnant pause. "They're only in plays." (18.12-13)
When they find the puppet, Parsefall is convinced that Grisini has turned Clara into a puppet, but Lizzie Rose isn't so sure. After all, that's a crazy notion, right? People can't just turn children into puppets … right?
Quote #5
"The other women who burned. The opal is known as the phoenix-stone because the fires recur. Almost everyone who possessed it died by fire. One woman was struck by lightning. Another perished in a house fire; that was said to be an accident. But there were other women who set themselves ablaze. Madwomen, suicides. One woman left a letter behind. She said that the women she saw in her looking glass had driven her insane." (19.37)
The phoenix-stone is insanely powerful, but it's also more dangerous than Cassandra ever guessed. The stone's magic leads all of its owners to die in fires and even drives some of them insane. Yikes.
Quote #6
The captive child would be easy prey. Above all things, Clara Wintermute would desire the magic power that would break Grisini's spell. Nothing would be simpler than to tempt her with the fire opal. It only remained for Cassandra to devise some way of speaking to Clara in her paralyzed state. It could be done; with the power of the cursed stone, it could be managed. Cassandra thought of the intricate, draining spell she would have to cast and wanted to groan with weariness. (29.31)
Being a witch isn't all fun and games, especially for Cassandra. She doesn't use her magic to do fun or silly things—or even to impress people at parties. She has to do these long, complicated spells just so she can get one of the kids to steal the stone so she won't have to burn to death.