Miranda closed her eyes, her lips pressed together, white. “I wish I could say I was surprised. But he never did think he had enough, no matter what he had. He wanted things to be easy. The sort of easy where you don’t have to work, where it just comes to you, and you’re not just adequate, you’re brilliant. He never understood why he didn’t have that, or that hard work might bring him closer to it. “He also never understood why he shouldn’t try to take it from someone else who did, especially if he thought they were less than he was. I very much wish that I didn’t, but I know what my son is.”
"He also never understood why he shouldn't try to take it from someone else who did" - this is a weirdly-written sentence. They had what? Effortless magic? Taken it from someone else? Im sure she just meant taking magic from someone else who has it unless he started by taking it from powerful, studied magicians, but that wasn't his later MO at least..
