The Book without Words Quotes

“As Sybil drew the frail boy close, she realized something: Odo had apologized to her. The monk had said he needed her. They boy had blessed her. In all her life no one had ever said or done any of those things. Here, in one day, were all three. Was that not a kind of magic?”
― Avi, The Book without Words: A Fable of Medieval Magic

“Because magic takes what it gives," said Sybil, "but life gives what we take.”
― Avi, The Book without Words: A Fable of Medieval Magic