How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
Deliberately she shaped the picture in her mind, herself in the kitchen at home, just having climbed out of bed and now leaning against the stove as she repeated the fire charm and listened to the crackle of twigs and the swelling roar of flames into the flue. Blindly she clung to that image as she forced her feeble Tilja legs to shuffle the alien body forward and out on the other side of the arch, where she halted, sweating and gasping as the numbness flowed back the way it had come [...]. (8.15)
Tilja uses her concept of self-identity to combat the foreign magic that's invading her body, to not lose herself. And what image best ties her to her concept of self? That would be an image of her at home at Woodbourne.
Quote #5
The sound pierced Tilja through and through. She had never imagined that she actually loved Calico. There couldn't, she felt, have been many less lovable horse in the world. But Calico was her last link with Woodbourne, and she was gone. (9.49)
When Tilja parts temporarily with her horse, Calico, the animal doesn't want to leave. Tilja's struck to the core—everything in her life has changed. Right now it's just her and Tahl in Goloroth—there are no more physical reminders of her previous life in Woodbourne. She must face a new world without any reminders of her safe home.
Quote #6
Tilja might not have Woodbourne physically around her, but she carries it in her mind and heart. When she's terrified that she'll screw up the world, Tilja calms down by reminding herself that she can't mess up—she promised her dad she'd come home. Time and again Tilja anchors herself with thoughts of home.
Tilja might not have Woodbourne physically around her, but she carries it in her mind and heart. When she's terrified that she'll screw up the world, Tilja calms down by reminding herself that she can't mess up—she promised her dad she'd come home. Time and again Tilja anchors herself with thoughts of home.