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“Fuck me, I thought. I can do magic.”
“I did feel a 'something', like a catch in the silence at the moment of creation.”
“This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.”
“On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.”
“Could it have been anyone, or was it destiny? When I'm considering this I find it helpful to quote the wisdom of my father, who once told me, "Who knows why the fuck anything happens?”
“I looked into the literature on this," said Nightingale, "and it wasn't very helpful.""There's a literature about this?""You'd be amazed, Constable, about what there's a literature on.”
“I've already told the police what happened, they didn't believe me. Why should you,' he said.'Because we're the people that believe people that other people don't believe,' I said.'How can I know t...”
“Can you sacrifice people?' I asked. 'Take their magic that way?''Yes,' he said. 'But there's a catch.''What's the catch?''You get hunted down even unto the ends of the Earth and summarily executed.”
“As I stepped onto the gloomy landing a word formed in my mind: two syllables, starts with a V and rhymes with dire. I froze in place. Nightingale said that everything was true, after a fashion, and...”
“So magic is real, I said. Which makes you a what?A wizard.Like Harry Potter?Nightingale sighed. No, he said, not like Harry Potter.In what way?Im not a fictional character, said Nightingale.”
“So magic is real,’ I said. ‘Which makes you a … what?’‘A wizard.’‘Like Harry Potter?’Nightingale sighed. ‘No,’ he said, ‘not like Harry Potter.’‘In what way?’‘I’m not a fictional character,’ said N...”
