Threadneedle (The Language of Magic, #1)

by Cari Thomas

‘Men are always so quick to slap a label on things. I attribute most of the problems of the world to that. They think they’re being clever, carving everything up, but all true wisdom is lost that way.’

‘Think of when you interpret a poem at school. You have to take into account its context, intonation, punctuation, rhyme scheme, the words and lines and the blank space around it. They all contribute to its meaning, which is not one meaning at all but a world of different meanings. It’s poetry.

Like darkness is the absence of light, fear is the absence of reason. You merely need to learn how to switch it off.’