This Magic Moment Quotes

“He'd folded the card into a shape that clearly resembled a lizard, with one spade as its eye.”
― Virna DePaul, This Magic Moment

“And then what?” she forced herself to ask, even though she already knew the answer. “What were you going to do after you and Max were done with each other?” It seemed obscene somehow, the way he kept bringing Max into this. Which was silly, of course. “We were going to part friends. Go back to the way things always were. No expectations. No embarrassment.” He”
― Virna DePaul, This Magic Moment

“No, of course not. He'd been so distant lately. He wasn't even looking at her. Instead, he was staring down at a playing card in his hands, folding it. Nothing strange about that. Like their parents, Rhys and his twin brother, Max, were always fiddling with some kind of magic trick. He was particularly fond of making coins disappear. Sometimes she wished he could make her crush on him disappear just as easily, but first she'd have to admit it to him. That was so never going to happen. She'd seen the types of girls he and Max were attracted to, and plain, chubby tomboys need not apply.”
― Virna DePaul, This Magic Moment