The Paper Magician Quotes

“Faith is a very personal thing, really. Just because you don’t meet with a group of people once a week who believe everything exactly the way you do doesn’t mean you don’t believe in something.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician

“Everyone has a dark side! But it’s their choice whether or not they cultivate it.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician

“But she still had time. Surely she still had time. Stories like this one weren’t meant to end badly.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician

“I don’t know how many women can claim to have walked a man’s heart, but I’ve walked yours,”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician

“Perhaps the man wasn’t so mad after all. Or maybe it’s a madness that I can learn to appreciate.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician

“Perhaps in a heart, knowledge was more stable than memory or thought.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician

“When I think about it . . . I guess I’ve just taken what bits and pieces I felt were right for me and made my own faith with them. Faith is a very personal thing, really. Just because you don’t meet with a group of people once a week who believe everything exactly the way you do doesn’t mean you don’t believe in something.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician

“I think life would be much . . . simpler . . . if a man could believe in one solid thing,” he answered, still not looking at her. “Bits and pieces here and there do no good for a man’s soul. Thinking all of it is right or all of it is wrong does no good, either. Just as a magician cannot work all materials. He must choose one. But how does he know? How do these people believe in this faith, but not the others? Yet they are happy.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician

“The ghostly images lasted only a moment longer before fading away, as all unread stories were wont to do.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician

“Never dismiss the value of entertainment, Ceony. Good-quality entertainment is never free, and it’s something everyone wants.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician

“I don’t know how many women can claim to have walked a man’s heart, but I’ve walked yours, Emery Thane. And I like the dog.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician

“What about my mistakes? I think about them, too, but where would I be if I thought of nothing else? What sort of person would I be if I drowned in them?”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician

“Curse Emery Thane for being such a difficult man to rescue!”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician

“Or maybe it’s a madness that I can learn to appreciate.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician

“ma always said the word damn came from beavers who gave up on their houses one stick short.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician

“A heart that’s known love is stronger than one that hasn’t, did you know that?”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician

“I feel capable of achieving anything, for nothing worldly can possibly hold me back from my ambitions now.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician

“The heart had the dark to balance out the light, the uncertainty to balance dreams.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician

“But how will I know if he’s acting strange?” Ceony asked. “He’s strange already.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician

“Her head full of clouds, but not in the dreamy sense. Just the empty one.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician

“For if rice and tuna was his for-guests meal, Ceony couldn’t imagine what the man ate when he dined alone. Perhaps Mg. Aviosky had assigned her here merely to ensure England’s oddest paper magician got some decent nutrition and didn’t wither away, leaving the country with only eleven paper magicians instead of twelve.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician

“Mg. Thane held his fork loosely in his hand. “I’ll not starve you, if that’s your worry.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician

“Everyone has a dark side! But it's their choice whether or not they cultivate it.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician

“She thought her ears would light with fire, her cheeks burn to ash, but the moment passed, as even the worst moments do.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician

“I guess I’ve just taken what bits and pieces I felt were right for me and made my own faith with them. Faith is a very personal thing, really. Just because you don’t meet with a group of people once a week who believe everything exactly the way you do doesn’t mean you don’t believe in something.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician

“I understand what you mean, about there being good in all faiths. In all gods, in all beliefs. When I think about it . . . I guess I’ve just taken what bits and pieces I felt were right for me and made my own faith with them.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician

“Who gave you the right to judge my mistakes against your own?”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician

“whose dark eyes narrowed to lightless almonds,”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician

“When I think about it . . . I guess I’ve just taken what bits and pieces I felt were right for me and made my own faith with them. Faith is a very personal thing, really. Just because you don’t meet with a group of people once a week who believe everything exactly the way you do doesn’t mean you don’t believe in something.” He”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician

“From her pocket she pulled a tiny snowflake, the one she had stowed there after her first day as a Folder. She rubbed her thumb over its tiny, delicate cuts, grateful she hadn’t yet washed this particular skirt. The snowflake still felt frosty, just like real snow. Snow he had made for her. All of it had been for her in one way or another, hadn’t it?
In the glow of the candlelight she said, “I have to do it. I have to save him.”
For she knew no one else would.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician