How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
Roscuro was enchanted. Everything glittered. Everything. The gold spoons on the table and the jingle bells on the juggler's cap, the strings on the minstrels' guitars and the crowns on the king's and the queen's heads.
And the little princess! How lovely she was! How much like the light itself. (19.6-7)
Roscuro is amazed by everything he sees. Shmoop would probably feel the same way on a tour of Buckingham Palace. But back in fairy-tale days, the difference between how the royals lived and how everyone else lived would really make a visitor awestruck.
Quote #8
She thought for a moment that it was the sun. But she turned and saw that the sun was in the west, where it should be, sinking to join the earth. This thing that shone so brightly was something else. Mig stood in the field and shaded her eyes with her left hand and watched the brilliant light draw closer and closer and closer until it revealed itself to be King Phillip and his Queen Rosemary and their daughter, the young Princess Pea. (26.4)
Doesn't this passage remind you of Despereaux and Roscuro's first look at the world of light?
Quote #9
The royal family was surrounded by knights in shining armor and horses in shining armor. And atop each member of the royal family's head, there was a golden crown, and they were all, the king and the queen and the princess, dressed in robes decorated with jewels and sequins that glittered and glowed and captured the light of the sun and reflected it back.
"Gor," breathed Mig. (26.5-6)
"Glittered," "glowed," "shining," "reflected." All that "light" language. Part of what makes the royal family glow is that they're together. It's a huge contrast to Mig's plain, dark, sad life. Not much light for her. She's alone.