How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
She wanted to speak back to the mountain, send some greeting in a childish hope that it would hear her and accept her as one of its own. (7.77)
Miri doesn't feel like she has a relationship with the mountain like everyone who's worked in the quarries, but she's wrong—she can speak through the mountain too. She just has to learn how it works.
Quote #5
From a spot on the cliff's edge, Miri could see the mountains and hills ringing out from Mount Eskel like water ripples from a thrown stone. Just below her, instead of sheer cliff, a shelf stuck out, so if she happened to slip on rubble rock, she would land on the ledge instead of falling a long way down. (16.71)
The girls know Mount Eskel so well, and they know every ledge and cliff. It's a good thing they have this mental map, because it comes in handy when they're trying to outsmart the bandits.
Quote #6
That night, winter came early. Snowfall slowed the morning's arrival, and the groggy gray light finally filtered out the night some hours past dawn. The view from the window showed a world lost to a storm of snowflakes thick as ash thrown from a bonfire. It was enough to change Dan's mind—they would stay at the academy until the storm broke. (21.1)
The mountain really does work in the girls' favor—instead of allowing the bandits to take them away from Mount Eskel, it boxes them in with a snow storm. Now they have more time for their parents to come and save them.