The Rules of Magic

by Alice Hoffman

This is what happens when you repudiate who you are. Once you do that, life works against you, and your fate is no longer your own.”

“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. That is the meaning of Abracadabra. I create what I speak.”

“I just do the best I can to face what life brings. That’s the secret, you know. That’s the way you change your fate.”