We Used To Be Magic Quotes

“But the sky is a crisp, cloudless blue, and I don't feel her here. Not like when I'm reading a book or watching a film and there's a line or a joke that I know she'd like so I make a little mental note to mention it to her before - I remember, and then...
In the back of my mind she's alive, sometimes.”
― Bea Ingalls, We Used To Be Magic

“I hate that it's changed everything, because I've realised now that I was magic when we met. I wore sparkling dresses. I disappeared in and out of beautiful places. And I didn't need to leave a shoe or a trail of breadcrumbs for him to find me, because he was magic too.”
― Bea Ingalls, We Used To Be Magic

“Sorry I'm late. How are you?' she asks, inclining her head towards me.

'Good, I say, overwhelmed by the banality of the question. Edie and I spent years locking eyes across classrooms and stealing kisses in storage cupboards. We shared the same tiny world - one of dust motes and damp grass, scuffed wood and rumpled uniforms. Now we're three thousand miles across the ocean, making stilted small talk over post-work drinks. It's surreal. Jarring.”
― Bea Ingalls, We Used To Be Magic

“I realised recently that most things in life are temporary,' she says seriously. 'Almost everything, actually. So, closing yourself off to something because you don't want to risk eventually losing it? I get the impulse, but I'm not sure it's worth it.”
― Bea Ingalls, We Used To Be Magic