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Into the light

August 21, 2015 Madame Sidler 2 Comments

Only one more week of The Monster in the Hollows! The last line of this excerpt is one of my favorites.


Sara led the children down the long hallway and paused at the double doors that led to the main room where the Overseer’s carriage had unloaded each of them over the years. She hadn’t seen the room since the night she’d helped Janner escape. She motioned for the throng of children clogging the hall behind her to keep quiet so she could listen. When she was sure it was safe, she pushed through the doors and led the children out of the darkness and into the light.

Thick beams of sunlight angled through high windows and lit the floor. The children held their hands up to the light as if it were the first time they’d ever seen it. The moment of awe was quickly broken, however, by squeals of delight and celebration. The children of the Fork Factory danced and ran and tumbled across the floor. They found water in a trough against the wall and splashed it on their faces, rubbing the soot away and meeting each other, in a way, for the very first time.

—From chapter 47, “The Fingerless Glove.”


Were there lines that you loved this week, from chapters 47-53 or from anywhere else in the books? Post them in the comments, please! We’d love to read along with you.

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  1. Miss Mary says

    August 23, 2015 at 8:03 pm

    My favorite parts are FULL of spoilers so I will restrict my comments to this, which sums things up nicely for those who remember the part around it, and who Leeli sings it to.

    My Love has gone across the sea
    To find a country far and fair
    He sailed into the gilded west
    and lo, my heart will never rest
    Until my love returns to me
    Or I set out to find him there.

    Come home, Come home! I sing to thee
    My love, come home and rest thy head
    I’ll watch for you the winter long
    And sing for you a summer song
    And if you can’t return to me
    Then I will sail to you instead

    Through tow’ring wave and shriek of gale
    I’ll aim my vessel ever west
    And steer it by the cord that bound
    My heart to yours, until your found
    And should you find my body pale
    And wrecked upon the loamy shale
    Rejoice, my love, and call me blessed!
    In death, my love, I loved you best

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  2. Miss Linda says

    August 23, 2015 at 4:56 pm

    I finally have time to post something! I love this section. I also love it when I find music that helps me in the same way, although I don’t see or hear any of the things Janner does. I just need reminding sometimes that there is more going on than what I can see. Somehow behind or underneath or beyond even the worst darkness, there is a great Goodness that cannot be corrupted and will never be stopped.

    Into the silence of the great hall, Leeli played. Her eyes were closed and she stood beside her mother, swaying with the melody.
    Janner knew the moment she spoke that if she played, the strange magic would awaken. And he was glad, though he couldn’t imagine what good it would do them…
    Still, he welcomed it. His heart was black with despair, so the Maker’s magic was most welcome. It helped him believe there was power pulsing behind the veil of the visible world, pulsing like blood through the world’s veins, sending life and light coursing through everything, surprising and confounding at every turn. When he remember this, the darkness glimmered with goodness.

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