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“We don't do spells," she said. She sounded a little disappointed to admit it. "We'll do recipes sometimes. But no spells or cantrips. Gran doesn't hold with none of that. She says it's common.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“He loved me. I do not doubt that. In hindsight, I do not believe that I loved him. I simply felt his love for me, burning and all-consuming, and reflected it back, as the cold light of the moon reflects the light of the sun. I did not know that at the time. I thought I loved him.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake

“But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.”
― Stephen King, Thinner

“and after all in this house what have we to fear? There is always someone with us who is stronger. The devil may visit us, but God lives here.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables