History TearJerker / Wintersmith

** And the fact that it's her fault wouldn't be so unbearable if Tiffany weren't Tiffany. If she isn't a protector, she's someone else; she isn't ''her''. That part of her identity was so powerful it helped her stand against ''anything''. Now that protector is responsible, accidentally but still responsible, for the deaths of innocent people and animals.

** And the fact that it's her fault wouldn't be so unbearable if Tiffany weren't Tiffany. If she isn't a protector, she's someone else; she isn't ''her''. That part of her identity is so powerful it helped her stand against ''anything''. And now that protector is responsible, accidentally but still responsible, for the deaths of innocent people and animals.

** And the fact that it's her fault wouldn't be so unbearable if Tiffany weren't Tiffany. If she isn't a protector, she's someone else; she isn't ''her''. That part of her identity is so powerful it helped her defeat the Queen of Fairies. And now that protector is responsible, accidentally but still responsible, for the deaths of innocent people and animals.

** And the fact that it's her fault wouldn't be so unbearable if Tiffany weren't Tiffany. If she isn't a protector, she's someone else; she isn't ''her''. That part of her identity is so powerful it helped her defeat the Queen of Fairies. And now that protector is responsible, accidentally but responsible, for the deaths of innocent people and animals.

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--> A book-long one which lingers for the rest of the series: Tiffany didn't just ruin this winter, but every winter that will ever come after it for her, the Achings, and the rest of the Chalk. Now every time the first snow falls on the Chalk again, it will carry within it a memory of death and destruction. And it's her fault.

** What's even sadder is that Annagramma was right. None of those girls really were her friends; they just feared how she'd act if they didn't pretend to be. They all hate her. Come to think of it, [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating does anyone truly like her]]?

** What's even sadder was that Annagramma was right. None of those girls were really her friends; they just feared how she would act if they didn't pretend to be. They all hate her. Come to think of it, [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating does anyone actually like her]]?

** What's even sadder was that Annagramma was right. None of those girls were really her friends; they just feared how she would act if they didn't pretend to be. They all hate her. Come to think of it, [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating does anyone actually ''like'' Annagramma]]?

** What's even sadder was that Annagramma was right. None of those girls were really her friends; they just feared how she would act if they didn't pretend to be. They all hate her. Come to think of it, [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating is there anyone who actually ''likes'' Annagramma]]?

** What's even sadder was that Annagramma was right. None of those girls were really her friends; they just feared how she would act if they didn't pretend to be. They all hate her. Come to think of it, [[ZeroPercentApprovalRatingis there anyone who actually ''likes'' Annagramma]]?

** What's even sadder was that Annagramma was right. None of those girls were really her friends; they just feared how she would act if they didn't pretend to be.

** What's even sadder was that Annagramma was right. None of those girls were really her friends; they just feared what she would do to them if they weren't.

* In the opening scene, Tiffany's fear for the lambs that are dying under the snowdrifts, as exhausted men labor to move snow they have nowhere to put. Her father, ''begging'' her to do something beyond her powers to fix a disaster she knows is all her fault. And then he tells her that ''her little brother is missing...''

* Rob Anybody reads ''Where's My Cow?'' to his children. The idea of ''Where's My Cow?'' as a metaphor for going to extremes to be a good father...
* The part where the townspeople are still asking Miss Treason for help even after she's dead made me cry a little, as well as this:
-->And just as she was about to speak sharply to the villagers for still bothering Miss Treason, she remembered the packets of Jolly Sailor tobacco that the shepherds even now left on the turf where the old shepherding hut had been. They didn't write their petitions down, but they were there, all the same, floating in the air:\\
''Granny Aching, who herds the clouds in the blue sky, please watch my sheep. Granny Aching, cure my son. Granny Aching, find my lambs.''
* Tiffany, in the final confrontation with the Wintersmith, realizes that he ''does'' think like a human. "He thinks like a human who's never met another human. He's cackling. He's so mad he will never, ever understand how mad he is, he doesn't know what horrors he's planning, and he's so happy he's almost sweet ..."
--> She'd cry, later, for the Wintersmith who wanted to be human.

* One of the notes left at Miss Treason's grave:
--> Miss Treason please find our Girl Becky what run away Im sorry.

* Tiffany, in the final confrontation with the Wintersmith, realizes that he ''does'' thinks like a human. "He thinks like a human who's never met another human. He's cackling. He's so mad he will never, ever understand how mad he is, he doesn't know what horrors he's planning, and he's so happy he's almost sweet ..."

--> Miss Treason please find our Girl Becky what run away Im sorry

* In the opening scene, Tiffany's fear for the lambs that are dying under the snowdrifts, as exhausted men labor to move snow they have nowhere to put. Her father, ''begging'' her to do something beyond her powers to fix a disaster she knows is all her fault. And then he tells her that ''her little brother is missing...''

* In the opening scene, Tiffany's fear for the lambs that are dying under the snowdrifts, as exhausted men labor to move snow they have nowhere to put. Her father, ''begging'' her to do something beyond her powers to fix something she knows is all her fault. And then he tells her that ''her little brother is missing...''

* In the opening scene, Tiffany's fear for the lambs that are dying under the snowdrifts, as exhausted men labor to move snow they have nowhere to put. Her father, ''begging'' her to do something beyond her powers to fix something she knows is all her fault. And then he tells her that ''her little brother is missing..."

* In the opening scene, Tiffany's fear for the lambs that are dying under the snow, as exhausted men labor to move snow they have nowhere to put. Her father, ''begging'' her to do something beyond her powers to fix something she knows is all her fault. And then he tells her that ''her little brother is missing..."

* In the opening scene, Tiffany's absolute determination, no matter how frightened she is or how deeply she knows she's in over her head, to force her way through the yards-deep snow and rescue Wentworth and the lambs.

--> She'd cry, later, for the Wintersmith who wanted to be human.

--> She'd cry, later, for the wintersmith who wanted to be human.

* Tiffany, in the final confrontation with the Wintersmith, realizes that he ''does'' thinks like a human. "He thinks like a human who's never met another human. He's cackling. He's so mad he will never, ever understand how mad he is, he doesn't know what horrors he's planning, and he's so happy he's almost sweet ..."