I knew how they shattered, and how they put themselves back together. I fell in love with each and every one of those characters, even the awful ones, in the process of writing Nancy’s story, because I knew why they were the way they were. Some of them turned bitter in the aftermath of their adventures. "When I wrote Every Heart a Doorway, I knew I needed to populate the school with people whose experience paralleled Nancy’s without duplicating it, people who had found their own doors and then lost them. Alas, everything costs at the Goblin Market, and when her time there is drawing to a close, she makes the kind of bargain that never plays out well. When she finds a doorway to a world founded on logic and reason, riddles and lies, she thinks she's found her paradise. Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather study and dream than become a respectable housewife and live up to the expectations of the world around her.
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