if you want somebody else to buy what you’re selling them, you gotta believe it too. You can’t show any doubts or the audience will feel it. Deep in their bones. You show fear or waver in any way, then that’s what they focus on. You believe your own story, that you’re the greatest coin illusionist that ever lived?” She shrugged and grabbed her teacup again. “You make them all believe what you want them to.”

