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Tear Jerker / The Inkworld Trilogy

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Inkheart
  • Mo's backstory: a kind, goofy book-binder father who accidentally read his wife into a book and had to live with that for the next nine years.
  • Meggie's pain at seeing her father abducted by Capricorn's men.
  • Elinor's pain and grief at seeing her beloved books burnt by Capricorn's men.

Inkspell

  • Mo and Resa's grief upon discovering that Meggie has read herself and Farid into Inkheart.
  • The aftermath of Mortola shooting Mo.
  • Meggie briefly reuniting with an injured Mo in the Inkworld.
  • Meggie's reaction when she, Dustfinger and Farid fail to rescue her parents.
  • Meggie and Mo's reunion near the end of Inkspell.
  • Roxane's grief over Dustfinger's death.

Inkdeath

  • Resa fearing for Mo and not wanting to feel what Roxane is going through.
  • Elinor sinking into depression and missing Mo, Resa and Meggie.

The Colour of Revenge

  • The entire chapter in which the entire Folchart-Loredan family, plus Fenoglio, Roxane, Brianna and Doria vanish into a book that was being painted by Balbulus.
  • Balbulus' growing suspicion and fear that he'd unwittingly trapped innocent people into the book he'd painted.

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