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Dunstan is Tristran and Louisa’s father. He’s extremely practical, even as a young man—though this characterization is called into question when the man in the top hat casts some sort of spell on Dunstan, and Dunstan becomes infatuated with Lady Una. The two have unprotected sex during the Faerie market as a result, even though Dunstan is in the process of courting Daisy Hempstock. Dunstan continues to be mopey and dreamy after until his and Daisy’s wedding, which their mothers arrange. He only learns that he and Lady Una conceived Tristran after Tristran’s birth, when baby Tristran is pushed through the wall in a basket. He and Daisy raise Tristran as though Tristran is Daisy’s son, though Dunstan later tells his son the truth of his conception. Dunstan remains firm in his belief that all beings have a place in the world where they belong, and so he’s not surprised or overly emotional when Tristran decides to stay in Faerie for good.
Dunstan Thorn Quotes in Stardust
The Stardust quotes below are all either spoken by Dunstan Thorn or refer to Dunstan Thorn. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1
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Mr. Bromios had set up a wine-tent and was selling wines and pasties to the village folk, who were often tempted by the foods being sold by the folk from Beyond the Wall but had been told by their grandparents, who had got it from their grandparents, that it was deeply, utterly wrong to eat fairy food, to eat fairy fruit, to drink fairy water and sip fairy wine.
For every nine years, the folk from Beyond the Wall and over the hill set up the stalls, and for a day and a night the meadow played host to the Faerie market; and there was, for one day and one night in nine years, commerce between the nations.
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Chapter 2
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He thought of Victoria’s lips, and her grey eyes, and the sound of her laughter. He straightened his shoulders, placed the crystal snowdrop in the top buttonhole of his coat, now undone. And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristran Thorn passed beyond the fields we know...
...and into Faerie.
Chapter 8
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The exotic bird hopped up beside her and it chirruped, once, curiously.
“Of course I have kept my word—to the letter,” said the old woman, as if in reply. “He shall be transformed back at the market meadow, so shall regain his own form before he comes to Wall. [...] And I do believe that bumpkin’s flower was even finer than the one you lost to me, all those years ago.”
Chapter 10
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“What have you done?” Spittle flecked the old woman’s lips.
“I have done nothing; nothing I did not do eighteen years ago. I was bound to you to be your slave until the day that the moon lost her daughter, if it occurred in a week when two Mondays came together. And my time with you is almost done.”
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Dunstan Thorn Quotes in Stardust
The Stardust quotes below are all either spoken by Dunstan Thorn or refer to Dunstan Thorn. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1
Quotes
Mr. Bromios had set up a wine-tent and was selling wines and pasties to the village folk, who were often tempted by the foods being sold by the folk from Beyond the Wall but had been told by their grandparents, who had got it from their grandparents, that it was deeply, utterly wrong to eat fairy food, to eat fairy fruit, to drink fairy water and sip fairy wine.
For every nine years, the folk from Beyond the Wall and over the hill set up the stalls, and for a day and a night the meadow played host to the Faerie market; and there was, for one day and one night in nine years, commerce between the nations.
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Chapter 2
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He thought of Victoria’s lips, and her grey eyes, and the sound of her laughter. He straightened his shoulders, placed the crystal snowdrop in the top buttonhole of his coat, now undone. And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristran Thorn passed beyond the fields we know...
...and into Faerie.
Chapter 8
Quotes
The exotic bird hopped up beside her and it chirruped, once, curiously.
“Of course I have kept my word—to the letter,” said the old woman, as if in reply. “He shall be transformed back at the market meadow, so shall regain his own form before he comes to Wall. [...] And I do believe that bumpkin’s flower was even finer than the one you lost to me, all those years ago.”
Chapter 10
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“What have you done?” Spittle flecked the old woman’s lips.
“I have done nothing; nothing I did not do eighteen years ago. I was bound to you to be your slave until the day that the moon lost her daughter, if it occurred in a week when two Mondays came together. And my time with you is almost done.”
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