The Rules of Magic

by Alice Hoffman

What is meant to be is bound to happen, whether or not you approve.

“I’m fated to lose everyone I ever love,” April said. “I already know that.” “Of course you are,” Jet responded in her calm, measured tone. “That’s what it means to be alive.”

“Anything whole can be broken,” Isabelle told her. “And anything broken can be put back together again.

“The world will do enough to us, we don’t have to do it to ourselves,”