Hovers are the primary means of transportation on Earth in the novel. These vehicles are designed to hover above the ground using a magnetic device called a magbelt to propel it off the ground.
Hover Quotes in Cinder
The Cinder quotes below are all either spoken by Hover or refer to Hover. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2
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Irritation hardened in Cinder’s gut. She might have pointed out that Pearl and Peony could have been given ready-made rather than custom dresses in order to budget for Cinder’s as well. She might have pointed out that they would only wear their dresses one time too. She might have pointed out that, as she was the one doing the work, the money should have been hers to spend as she saw fit. But all arguments would come to nothing. Legally, Cinder belonged to Adri as much as the household android and so too did her money, her few possessions, even the new foot she’d just attached. Adri loved to remind her of that.
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Hover Term Timeline in Cinder
The timeline below shows where the term Hover appears in Cinder. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 1
...a rag. She and Iko then wait until they hear the sirens of an emergency hover take Sacha away.
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Chapter 2
...fitting. When Adri says that Cinder can only attend the ball if she fixes their hover, Cinder explains that she needs money to buy a new magbelt (which makes a hover...
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Chapter 4
...her wrench inside her prosthetic foot’s calf compartment. Cinder and Iko then look for other hovers to scavenge, while Peony informs them that Prince Kai is going to look for a...
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Chapter 5
...skin, wondering if she brought the plague home from the market. She calls an emergency hover while Peony starts to cry. Cinder apologizes, worried that she is the reason that Peony...
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Chapter 11
...before her cybernetic surgery—they had to install a brain interface because she was in a hover accident.
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Chapter 17
...her interface that Peony has entered the third stage of letumosis. Immediately, she calls a hover for the first time in her life and travels to the quarantines. There, the med-droids...
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Chapter 29
...criminal. Adri asks what Cinder was doing at the palace today, why she took a hover to the outskirts of the city, and why she stole 600 univs on a new...
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Chapter 31
Just then, Adri comes in and commands Cinder to wash their hover during Prince Kai’s coronation. As Cinder does so, she watches some of the coronation coverage...
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