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Justine Crown
A sweet but melancholy and easily frightened little girl who lives next door to Abigail, and whom Abigail regularly babysits. It is Natalie who points out the “little furry girl” to Abigail at the playground. Natalie is frightened of the Beatie Bow game, unlike her brother, and prefers to watch the furry girl observe the game. Natalie feels that the little girl is horribly sad. Years after Abigail returns from the past, she visits the Crowns, and it is revealed that Justine—and thus Natalie and Vincent—are descendants of the Bows, and that Natalie is a bearer of the Gift.
Natalie Crown Quotes in Playing Beatie Bow
The Playing Beatie Bow quotes below are all either spoken by Natalie Crown or refer to Natalie Crown. 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 2 Quotes
Her eyes turned instinctively to the corner of the wall where it met the street. There lurked Natalie's little furry girl, looking cold and forlorn.
“She looks the way I feel,” thought Abigail. But how did she feel? Not quite lost but almost. Baffled. A sense of too many strange ideas crowding around her, a feeling of helplessness and difficulty with which she could not come to terms. She thought, “Maybe they're right. Maybe there is such a thing as being too young and inexperienced to know your own mind.”
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After a terrible fight with her mother over Kathy’s desire to get back together with Weyland, Abigail leaves her mother’s vintage shop in a fury and takes the bus home. Abigail considers that perhaps she has been too cruel to her mother, but before she can come to any real conclusion about how to apologize for her actions or get better in touch with her own feelings, she spots the strange little “furry” girl who her next door neighbor, Natalie Crown, has frequently seen observing the scary children’s playground game, Beatie Bow. As Abigail watches the forlorn and anxious little Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi
Chapter 7 Quotes
In a way she felt as she had felt when her father went away and left her. Fright, anger and helplessness, the sense of being nobody who could make things happen. But then she had been only ten. Four years of schooling her face to be expressionless, her thoughts to be her private property, had not gone to waste.
After her first despair, she thought, “I won’t let them beat me. If that dress is hidden around the house I’lI find it. Or I'll bribe Beatie, or coax Judah, into telling me where it is.”
She had learnt a lot about herself in this new rough world. Her own thoughts and conclusions of just a month before filled her with embarrassed astonishment when she reviewed them.
“What a dummo I was! I knew as much about real life as poor little Natty.”
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At the start of this chapter, Abigail at last understands the weight of her duty to the Bow-Tallisker clan, but still wrestles with her feelings of being a captive, or a prisoner. Even so, Abigail concedes that being in the past—captive though she feels—has done her some good; she has learned much about herself, has formed new opinions and a new worldview, and has broadened her horizons in many ways. Abigail is torn, then, between wanting to stay in the past and continue learning, and going back to her own time and possibly forgetting or abandoning all she has learned. Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam
Chapter 13 Quotes
“Natalie has something to do with this, hasn't she,” he pondered. “Because, after all, she's a Bow, and perhaps she has the Gift. And the crochet, because it came from the fingers of that Great-great-great-grandmother Alice from the Orkneys, was just enough to tip you over into the last century. She was right, you know: you were the Stranger of the Prophecy.”
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As Robert Bow listens to Abigail’s story of her time in the past living with the Bows and the Talliskers, he is surprisingly on board with her tale, and believes her every word. More than that, he is enthusiastic about filling in the gaps and piecing together the many pieces of his family’s strange puzzle. He recognizes that his niece, Natalie, is blessed with the precious gift of the second sight, and marvels at the pivotal, instrumental role that Abigail played in preserving his family’s history, legacy, and lineage. Abigail herself has many times tried to push the significance of Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expe
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Natalie Crown Character Timeline in Playing Beatie Bow
The timeline below shows where the character Natalie Crown appears in Playing Beatie Bow. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 1
...and goes to visit the Crowns, her neighbors. Justine Crown is the mother of four-year-old Natalie and six-year-old Vincent. Natalie is sweet, but Vincent is a monster. Abigail feels protective of...
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...children “racing dementedly back and forth,” clearly playing some kind of group game. Abigail asks Natalie if she would like to join the game, but Natalie shakes her head and begins...
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Abigail and Natalie watch the game—a girl stands in the middle of a circle of children, playing the...
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Natalie explains that if the person playing Beatie Bow catches someone, that person then becomes the...
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...him that it is time to go home, and it is already too cold for Natalie. Vincent makes a rude gesture at the two girls and then runs back into the...
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Inside the apartment, Abigail offers to stay until dinner so that she can entertain Natalie while Justine cooks and gets ready for dinner. Justine suggests Abigail help Natalie sew some...
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Abigail and Natalie pick through a bag of fabric, testing swatches against Natalie’s teddy. Abigail tells Natalie about...
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Chapter 2
...and offers to take the children to the playground. Justine tells her to just take Natalie—Vincent is ill with a sore throat. When Justine notices Abigail’s dress, she asks her if...
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On the way down to the playground, Natalie tells Abigail that she was able to see the little furry girl on the playground...
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Natalie suggests they go speak to the little girl. As they approach her, Abigail notices that...
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...Abigail feels on the inside. As she watches the little girl, she is reminded of Natalie. She approaches the little girl and startles her with a “Boo.” The little girl shouts...
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Chapter 3
As Abigail listens to Beatie speak, she realizes that Natalie’s belief that the little furry girl was unhappy was true—Abigail wonders if the reason Beatie’s...
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Chapter 12
Abigail still takes Natalie and Vincent to the playground sometimes, but the children have given up playing Beatie Bow,...
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Chapter 13
...smiles happily, revealing that he does. Justine is happy to see Abigail, too—Abigail asks after Natalie, and Justine tells Abigail that Natalie is out shopping with someone called Robert, as today...
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...asks who Robert is—Justine answers that Robert is her younger brother, and at twenty, is Natalie’s favorite uncle. Justine asks Abigail to tell her about all the affairs she must have...
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As Abigail hugs Natalie, she wonders whether Natalie truly remembers their time together. Just then, Natalie leans in and...
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While Natalie opens her presents with Vincent and her mother, Robert and Abigail talk with one another....
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...Robert listens to her quite seriously. When she’s done with her tale, Robert insists that Natalie must have had something to do with everything that happened—after all, she is a Bow,...
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