"We grew up playing freely in the ruins and had no real sense of this history. It was a wonderful place for children. It was abandoned and grown over and ignored, and once you slipped away from the houses it was wild" (p. 33).

"You can never be sure where you are with magic. And you can never be sure if you've really done anything or if you were just playing. And in any case, I shouldn't do anything at all like that, because it will draw her [Morwenna's mother's] attention and I have too much of it already" (p. 43).

"I loved Mor, but I never appreciated her enough. I never really understood how wonderful it was to always have someone to talk to who would know what you were talking about, and someone to play with who understood the kind of things I wanted to play" (p. 67).

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