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Quentin did a magic trick. Nobody noticed.
book that did what books always promised to do and never actually quite did: get you out, really out, of where you were and into somewhere better.
Some people need their families to become who they’re supposed to be. And there’s nothing wrong with that. But there are other ways to do it.”
She was passionately loyal, and if she was obnoxious it was only because she was so deeply tender-hearted. It made her easily wounded, and when she was wounded she lashed out. She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone.
God, why is everybody else in the world but us so fucking stupid?”
Can a man who can cast a spell ever really grow up?”
Alice’s contribution was to stop reading long enough to eat.
Same.
In a way fighting like this was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe.
By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.
