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Surely a murderer would look different? Not so tired? At thirty-five, I was more than old enough to know that evil could present a fair face, but I had never heard that it got tired. Quite the opposite, really. Evil is relentlessly
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“I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.”
― The Passion
― The Passion
“I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.”
― The Passion
― The Passion
“She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.”
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“Where there is life, there will be magic; the one generates the other.”
― A Madness of Angels
― A Madness of Angels
“Life is magic.
I knew, without having to ask, what she meant. Life was not the magic of spells or enchantments or sorcery; or, it was, but that was not the point. Life created magic as an accidental by-product, it wasn't, definite article, absolute statement, A=B, magic. Life was magic in a more mundane sense of the word; the act of living being magic all of its own.
This was something we instinctively understood - it simply hadn't occurred to us that it might need explaining.”
― A Madness of Angels
I knew, without having to ask, what she meant. Life was not the magic of spells or enchantments or sorcery; or, it was, but that was not the point. Life created magic as an accidental by-product, it wasn't, definite article, absolute statement, A=B, magic. Life was magic in a more mundane sense of the word; the act of living being magic all of its own.
This was something we instinctively understood - it simply hadn't occurred to us that it might need explaining.”
― A Madness of Angels
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