"I hate the term magic realism because it implies paradox, as if magic isn’t a part of realism when..."

“I hate the term magic realism because it implies paradox, as if magic isn’t a part of realism when in fact it’s inside of the very threads of what’s real. It is not the magic world that is different, but the medium, the sensing apparatus. Realism is only half the story.”

- Carmen Giménez Smith (via mttbll)