The Lost Kingdom of Bamarre Quotes

“Lantern-shine, dim but kind— No starkness in darkness— Even I please the eye. Outside, wind and rain, Weather’s fitful wax and wane. Tomorrow’s sun will reveal What night conceals. All we lack, regret, know, Forgotten in lamp-oil glow.”
― Gail Carson Levine, The Lost Kingdom of Bamarre

“AFTER A MOMENT, the dragon dived below the ridge, and the scene faded. I turned. Halina had disappeared. Breathing hard, I sat in the window seat. The mountains must have been the Eskerns, which were in the south, dividing New Lakti, where we lived now, from Old Lakti, our former home. The dragon must have been one of the monsters in Old Lakti, where ogres, gryphons, and specters also lived. Were they coming here? “Halina, come back!” I squeezed my eyes shut and thought, shouting in my mind, Tell me what this means! Why did you show it to me? I opened my eyes. Dust motes slanted in from the windows. A”
― Gail Carson Levine, The Lost Kingdom of Bamarre