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“This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.”
― The Wee Free Men
― The Wee Free Men
“Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.”
― The Book of Lost Things
― The Book of Lost Things
“The secret is not to dream," she whispered. "The secret is to wake up. Waking up is harder. I have woken up and I am real. I know where I come from and I know where I'm going. You cannot fool me any more. Or touch me. Or anything that is mine.”
― The Wee Free Men
― The Wee Free Men
“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Jingo
― Jingo
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