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1 " Faith is a very personal thing, really. Just because you don’t meet with a group of people once a week who believe everything exactly the way you do doesn’t mean you don’t believe in something. "
― Charlie N. Holmberg , The Paper Magician (The Paper Magician, #1)
2 " Everyone has a dark side! But it’s their choice whether or not they cultivate it. "
3 " But she still had time. Surely she still had time. Stories like this one weren’t meant to end badly. "
4 " I don’t know how many women can claim to have walked a man’s heart, but I’ve walked yours, "
5 " Perhaps the man wasn’t so mad after all. Or maybe it’s a madness that I can learn to appreciate. "
6 " Perhaps in a heart, knowledge was more stable than memory or thought. "
7 " When I think about it . . . I guess I’ve just taken what bits and pieces I felt were right for me and made my own faith with them. Faith is a very personal thing, really. Just because you don’t meet with a group of people once a week who believe everything exactly the way you do doesn’t mean you don’t believe in something. "
8 " I think life would be much . . . simpler . . . if a man could believe in one solid thing,” he answered, still not looking at her. “Bits and pieces here and there do no good for a man’s soul. Thinking all of it is right or all of it is wrong does no good, either. Just as a magician cannot work all materials. He must choose one. But how does he know? How do these people believe in this faith, but not the others? Yet they are happy. "
9 " Never dismiss the value of entertainment, Ceony. Good-quality entertainment is never free, and it’s something everyone wants. "
10 " The ghostly images lasted only a moment longer before fading away, as all unread stories were wont to do. "
11 " Or maybe it’s a madness that I can learn to appreciate. "
12 " ma always said the word damn came from beavers who gave up on their houses one stick short. "
13 " Curse Emery Thane for being such a difficult man to rescue! "
14 " I don’t know how many women can claim to have walked a man’s heart, but I’ve walked yours, Emery Thane. And I like the dog. "
15 " A heart that’s known love is stronger than one that hasn’t, did you know that? "
16 " What about my mistakes? I think about them, too, but where would I be if I thought of nothing else? What sort of person would I be if I drowned in them? "
17 " I feel capable of achieving anything, for nothing worldly can possibly hold me back from my ambitions now. "
18 " Mg. Thane held his fork loosely in his hand. “I’ll not starve you, if that’s your worry. "
19 " For if rice and tuna was his for-guests meal, Ceony couldn’t imagine what the man ate when he dined alone. Perhaps Mg. Aviosky had assigned her here merely to ensure England’s oddest paper magician got some decent nutrition and didn’t wither away, leaving the country with only eleven paper magicians instead of twelve. "
20 " Her head full of clouds, but not in the dreamy sense. Just the empty one. "