![]() ![]() Due to both its size and its importance, that dictionary was the top-most book on my stack of reference materials for years. Mattie looks up a word a day." I took note of this because when I was very little, my mother gave me my own small dictionary so I'd be able to look up words whenever I happened upon one I didn't know yet. ![]() I wrote, "Mattie has a dictionary that her mother bought - her mother saved up money to get it. Īll page numbers refer to the hardcover edition. There's no going back once you're already gone. When Weaver asks her why she's going now, she tells him, "Because Grace Brown can't.". I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you. He probably just wanted some company, for it is very lonely knowing things. ![]() It was a dreadful thing that he did, and he is not to be admired for it, but right then I felt I understood why he did it. "Sometimes I wish there really was such a thing as a happy ending." Spoiler alert: Emily ends up being her teacher. Baker, Dierdre, Review of A Northern Light in Jennifer Donnelly Reviews, (September 20, 2005) originally published in. "Emily Baxter's poems made my head hurt.". "It was a strange feeling - worrisome and exciting all at once. When I happened upon those quotes today, I thought I'd share them here see which of my readers also read and enjoyed the book. Planning to write a review, I took notes, but the paper filled with quotes rather than commentary. ![]() I read A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly nearly five years ago, when it was a readergirlz book selection. ![]()
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