QUOTE : Will you teach me to do magic, too?” she asked him. “To make fire with my eyes?” The fire flared sudden and harsh on the bones of Morozko’s face. “There is no such thing as magic.” “But you just—” “Things are or they are not, Vasya,” he interrupted. “If you want something, it means you do not have it, it means that you do not believe it is there, which means it will never be there. The fire is or it is not. That which you call magic is simply not allowing the world to be other than as you will it.” Her weary brain refused to comprehend. She scowled. “Having the world as you wish—that is not for the young,” he added. “They want too much.