How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
I watched Old Mrs. Hempstock reel the thing in, and I was still unable, somehow, to entirely make sense of what I was seeing. It was a hole with nothing around it, over two feet long, thinner than an earthworm, like the shed skin of a translucent snake. (9.113)
We guess that pulling the portal out of his foot had to be at least marginally better than when he pulled the Ursula Monkton-worm out? No?
Quote #8
Moonlight spilled onto the stairs, brighter than our candle flames. I glanced up through the window and I saw the full moon. The cloudless sky was splashed with stars beyond all counting. "That's the moon," I said.
"Gran likes it like that," said Lettie Hempstock.
"But it was a crescent moon yesterday. And now it's full. And it was raining. It is raining. But now it's not."
"Gran always likes the full moon to shine on this side of the house. She says it's restful, and it reminds her of when she was a girl," says Lettie. "And it means you don't trip on the stairs." (9.136)
Gran is nothing if not practical. Why turn on a light if you can have a hallway lit by the full moon every night?
Quote #9
"We don't do spells," she said. She sounded a little disappointed to admit it. "We'll do recipes sometimes. But no spells or cantrips. Gran doesn't hold with none of that. She says it's common." (10.62)
So this answers one question… sort of. But spells and cantrips tend to be in the domain of witches, and the Hempstocks are supposedly above all that. So maybe they're not witches. Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster that they cleared that up.