"If only it were that easy!" Sarah said, rubbing her face again. "What I want is for you to send that box as far into the center of the Earth as possible and never think about it again, but I can't. Hoggle said someone has to have it, or things will fall apart. And instead of one of them being able to take it?
"'It chose me'." She finally did stop in front of him, facing him. "Jareth died and his magic chose me. Me!" Disbelief, confusion and anger all, the first two due to the idea of her ruling anything, but the last borne from the opinion that, even in dead, Jareth had sought to change her life to his will. He'd cursed her with what he'd been.