Katie Long

“When I was eleven years old, I believed in magic. The meaning of belief has changed over the ages. We tend to think of it as a matter of fact. I believe this thing is true; I hold it to be factual. But once, it meant something different, a meaning that lingers when we say I believe in you. It is not a statement of factual existence, but one of faith and loyalty. To believe is to hold dear, to cherish, to claim as a truth more fundamental than fact. I believed in magic. We all did.”
― Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods