“Their father nodded. ‘Linder's in our blood and bones.’ ‘You think it works for us because we live around linder?’ asked Miri. ‘And drink it and breathe it, all our lives.’ Marda ducked her head as if she wanted to be silent, but clearly the idea fascinated her, and she continued. ‘If it works around linder, and mountain folk have linder inside us . . . maybe linder shapes quarry-speech in the way that cupping your hands around your mouth makes your voice louder. Or maybe quarry-speech travels through linder like sound through air, and the more linder the louder it is. Our memories move through linder, whether in the mountain or in a person.’” In Shannon Hale’s Princess Academy, linder is a very important concept in this novel because it
