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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

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

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“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

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“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

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“When I opened a book now, I was seized with desperation. I felt as if I was madly in love. It was as if I were in a confession booth and the characters in the book were on the other side telling me their most intimate secrets. When I read, I was a philosopher and it was up to me to figure out the meaning of things. Reading made me feel as if I were the center of the universe.”
― Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals

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