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1 " How old did you have to be before you learned the difference between the simulacrum of love and the reality? "
― Emily Croy Barker , The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic
2 " The dead should not have to answer to the claims of the living, even the sharpest grief. "
3 " No, the magic doesn't wear off at midnight. It's much more powerful than that. It comes from you. You wanted something, and so it came to be. "
4 " And now it turns out that women can't even talk like men. Which is a clever way to invalidate women's discourse, isn't it? No wonder women can't do magic; no wonder spirits won't listen to their puny, trivial, voices. It's all woven into the basic structure of the language. "
5 " Killing someone usually turns out to be an enormously complicated solution to what was a much simpler problem. "
6 " That's the problem with translations," she added sadly. "You can never quite reproduce the flavor of the original. "
7 " Out of habit, she stopped by the bookshelf in the living room to see if there was a paperback that she could stuff into her pocket for emergencies — you never knew when you might need a book to entertain and comfort and distract you in the day's empty places "
8 " It was one thing to read about a society obsessed with female purity—quite another to find yourself living in one. "
9 " You know, sometimes, very innocently, you can develop a sort of fascination with a man, and then you see all these little signs that actually don't mean anything, but it's too late because you're reading in them exactly what you want to read. Be careful, is all I'm saying. It's easy to get fooled. "
10 " real magic comes out of what is around you, it is born from the long conversation, negotiation, fellowship that human beings have with the things of the world. "
11 " She'd been an easy mark, so greedy for love that she had given the best of her own heart without stopping to consider what she received in exchange. "
12 " Pick your path with intent. "
13 " Rumor had it that he was a superannuated grad student who had gone crazy after being unable to complete his thesis. "
14 " She’d been an easy mark, so greedy for love that she had given the best of her own heart without stopping to consider what she received in exchange. "
15 " There are a number of good spells for making an animal speak,” Aruendiel said to Nora. “It is far more difficult to make them say anything worth listening to.” “That "
16 " Somehow you made trudging through the wilderness in the middle of winter with a soul-sucking demon and a soul-sucked would-be murderer seem not so terrible. “But "
17 " you never knew when you might need a book to entertain and comfort and distract you in the day’s empty places. "
18 " In some ways, we know our hands better than our faces. "
19 " One travels lighter with a full purse. "
20 " Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust. "