How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
"They overstepped their bounds," she said. "They could have hurt you, child, and it would have meant nothing. They could have hurt this world without anything being said—it's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds. But Lettie's a Hempstock. She's outside of their dominion, my little one. And they hurted her." (14.98)
In the version of reality in which the Hempstocks exist, worlds are common and numerous. But they themselves are outside of the dominion of the hunger birds, which seems pretty vast—so what world are they in? And does your head hurt yet? We'll admit ours does a bit.