Chapter Eight: Magical Verses

Believe in your heart that you're

meant to live a life full of passion, 

purpose, magic and miracles.

Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

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The moment you doubt whether you can fly,

you cease for ever to be able to do it.

J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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Hope is a powerful force.

Maybe there's no actual magic in it,

but when you know what you hope for

most and hold it like a light within you,

you can make things happen,

almost like magic.

Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke and Bone

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It's so dark right now, I can't see any

light around me. That's because the light

is coming from you. You can't see it

but everyone can.

Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

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There are some things, after all,

that Sally Owens knows for certain:

Always throw spilled salt over your shoulder.

Keep rosemary by your garden gate.

Add pepper to your mashed potatoes.

Plant roses and lavender, for luck.

Fall in love whenever you can.

Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

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When two people meet and fall in love,

there's a sudden rush of magic.

Magic is just naturally present then.

We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic

without striving to make any more.

One day we wake up and find that

the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back,

but by then it's usually too late,

we used it up. What we have to do

is work like hell at making additional magic

right from the start. It's hard work,

but if we can remember to do it, we greatly

improve our chances of making love stay.

Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

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Scientists have calculated that the chances

of something so patently absurd actually

existing are millions to one.

But magicians have calculated that

million-to-one chances crop up

nine times out of ten.

Terry Pratchett, Mort

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No, I would not want to live in a world

without dragons, as I would not want to

live in a world without magic,

for that is world without mystery,

and that is a world without faith.

R.A. Salvatore, Streams of Silver

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