But Nan stayed grave. “That’s just why there is a real Wind Boy,” she said, “Because your mother is an artist, a true one. If she weren’t an artist, but just a pretend one, well, then there very likely wouldn’t be any Wind Boy. But don’t you yourselves know that since she has made him so true there must be a truer one, if we could only see him?”

(Also illustrating ECE's slightly wobbly grasp of dialogue punctuation, but never mind.) Yeah, it's certainly an 'understanding everything isn't the point' kind of book!

I think there were definitely grounds for shipping Sara/Miranda at least one-sidedly, though of course that doesn't exactly end well... Albert and Mike were fun, it just wasn't quite what I was looking for :D