Shana

“Mortals may not believe in magic in the way they did centuries ago, but they merely call it a different name,” Merrick said from my other side. “Artists and poets—and many others—still draw on inspiration and imagination. They make the fantastic real. And what is that if not magic?”
― Jocelyn A. Fox, The Crown of Bones

“she exclaimed with all the anxiety of a worried mother, the sternness of an academy principal, and the relief of a farmer feeling spring’s first rain on his skin. Her”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician

“I believe in tragedy,” Shelby responds coldly. “Not miracles.”
― Alice Hoffman, Faithful

“I was once present at a lecture that Eugene Smith gave to some students at a school of photography. At the end, they protested because he had made no mention of photography, but had spoken the whole time about music. He calmed them by saying that what was valid for one was valid for another. —Henri Cartier-Bresson”
― Sam Stephenson, Gene Smith's Sink: A Wide-Angle View