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“I wish magic was more dramatic”
“Trees are what paper was, and wants to be.”
“You can never be sure where you are with magic.”
“Its lovely when writers I like like each other.”
“It’s lovely when writers I like like each other.”
“This school is enough to make anyone a communist.”
“If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.”
“And there's no sex, hardly any love stuff at all, in Middle Earth, which always made me think, yes, the world would be better off without it.”
“On the one hand, Gramma and Grampar never mentioned sex at all. They must have done it, or they wouldnt have had Auntie Teg and my mother, but I dont think they did it more than twice. Then theres ...”
“I'm only fifteen. I'm not sure I ever want to get married. I'm neither messing around while waiting nor looking for some "real thing". What I want is much more complicated. I want somebody to talk ...”
“Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real but it's pervasive and powerful. See; just like magic.”
“magic can make things happen before you do it. It can make things have happened.”
“It isn't really magic, except that it is. It's not magic that reaches into the world ands changes things. It's all inside my body. I thought, sitting there, that everything is magic. Using things c...”
“You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.”
“I'm so glad I have my own copy. I can read them again and again. I can read them again and again on trains, all my life, and every time I do I'll remember today and it will connect up. (Is that mag...”
“Magic isnt inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people.”
“At home I walked through a haze of belongings that knew, at least vaguely, who they belonged to. Grampars chair resented anyone else sitting on it as much as he did himself. Grammas shirts and jump...”
“You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen the way it does in books. It makes those chains of coincidence. That's what it is.”
“It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”
“If you love books enough, books will love you back.”
“I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.”
“I will laugh about this one day, I told myself. I will laugh about it with people so clever and sophisticated I can't imagine them properly now.”
“I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the people were so real because they were the people the worlds would have produced. If you put Ged ...”
“You couldnt get worse food, or food more detached from nature, if you tried. If you have an apple, youre connected to an apple tree. If you have a dish of set custard and half a glace cherry youre ...”
