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“Sometimes I am afraid for people like you who have to know things. Your kind will dig and hunt and worry at it until one day you will find what is hidden, waiting for you.”
― Isobelle Carmody, Obernewtyn

“All the hours he spent theorizing about magic seemed so naive now. The main ingredient in transformation was not magic, it was pain.”
― Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

“It was their duty, he'd say, to deliver the message: Faith lived in the darkest rooms.”
― Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

“Lewis thought all children came into the world knowing some truth about magic and God. He thought the journey of adulthood was to forget about these things and then partake in the path to remembering. Lewis said one of the purposes of art was to point people toward what they already knew. Now Wren really needed to know: Where is the art here, Lewis? And what path?”
― Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.”
― Tennessee Williams