The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic Quotes

“Out of habit, she stopped by the bookshelf in the living room to see if there was a paperback that she could stuff into her pocket for emergencies — you never knew when you might need a book to entertain and comfort and distract you in the day's empty places”
― Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

“It was one thing to read about a society obsessed with female purity—quite another to find yourself living in one.”
― Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

“You know, sometimes, very innocently, you can develop a sort of fascination with a man, and then you see all these little signs that actually don't mean anything, but it's too late because you're reading in them exactly what you want to read. Be careful, is all I'm saying. It's easy to get fooled.”
― Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

“real magic comes out of what is around you, it is born from the long conversation, negotiation, fellowship that human beings have with the things of the world.”
― Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

“She'd been an easy mark, so greedy for love that she had given the best of her own heart without stopping to consider what she received in exchange.”
― Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

“Killing someone usually turns out to be an enormously complicated solution to what was a much simpler problem.”
― Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

“Pick your path with intent.”
― Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

“There are a number of good spells for making an animal speak,” Aruendiel said to Nora. “It is far more difficult to make them say anything worth listening to.” “That”
― Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

“In some ways, we know our hands better than our faces.”
― Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

“The dead should not have to answer to the claims of the living, even the sharpest grief.”
― Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

“How old did you have to be before you learned the difference between the simulacrum of love and the reality?”
― Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

“She’d been an easy mark, so greedy for love that she had given the best of her own heart without stopping to consider what she received in exchange.”
― Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

“Rumor had it that he was a superannuated grad student who had gone crazy after being unable to complete his thesis.”
― Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

“One travels lighter with a full purse.”
― Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

“you never knew when you might need a book to entertain and comfort and distract you in the day’s empty places.”
― Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

“Somehow you made trudging through the wilderness in the middle of winter with a soul-sucking demon and a soul-sucked would-be murderer seem not so terrible. “But”
― Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

“Looking up the social scale from a turnip patch, Nora thought, it was difficult to discern degrees of wealth.”
― Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

“Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust.”
― Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

“Foul are my contents but sweeter than filth from the mouth.”
― Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

“And now it turns out that women can't even talk like men. Which is a clever way to invalidate women's discourse, isn't it? No wonder women can't do magic; no wonder spirits won't listen to their puny, trivial, voices. It's all woven into the basic structure of the language.”
― Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

“My dear young woman, appearances are the only true reality.”
― Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

“Natural beauty is always tiresome. It lacks that careless touch of artifice that is the hallmark of true originality. There is nothing so overdone and vulgar as unspoilt simplicity.”
― Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

“A broken heart doesn’t heal until you lose it to someone else. You need diversion. You should simply play, play, play—surround yourself with men until one of them makes you forget all about this poor, childish, confused Adam.”
― Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

“Ilissa had promised that this evening would be special, a spectacle that no one would forget easily. “You cannot top this,” she had said in the taxi. And standing in the cabin of a dirigible moored high over New York, listening to the big band playing in the corner of what was a surprisingly commodious ballroom, Nora decided that Ilissa was probably right.”
― Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

“Nora agreed with Charlotte Brontë that Jane Austen’s world was too manicured for sustained interest,”
― Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

“I could come back tomorrow morning and see if anyone needs any pots mended.” “Oh, they will,” Morinen said. “People always drop things. I wish I had a pair of stockings for every dish I’ve broken.” The”
― Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

“That's the problem with translations," she added sadly. "You can never quite reproduce the flavor of the original.”
― Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

“No, the magic doesn't wear off at midnight. It's much more powerful than that. It comes from you. You wanted something, and so it came to be.”
― Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

“But the important thing now is to enjoy yourself. A broken heart doesn't heal until you lose it to someone else. You need diversion. You should simply play, play, play - surround yourself with men until one of them makes you forget all about this poor, childish, confused Adam.”
― Emily Croy Barker, The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic