"Magic for Beginners" Quotes
A collection of imaginative and surreal short stories that blur the line between reality and fantasy.
short stories | 352 pages | Published in 2005
Quotes
Sometimes, you have to leave your life, or someone else has to leave theirs, before you can figure out what you really want.
Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in all the places.
It’s not just the dead that are dangerous.
Sometimes you have to pass through the forest to get to the enchanted castle. That’s the way it works, you know.
Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.
There are so many ways to be brave in this world.
People are capable of kindness beyond angels, yet we also commit sins that would put Satan to shame.
You can’t make someone love you, but you can keep them loving you.
Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers.
There are days when you feel like a murderer, even though you never meant to hurt anyone.
