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""There's no why," said Elspeth. "You don't have to understand it. You just have to accept.""

Hrmmm reductionism... "And if that was true - then what difference did it make, what history you had, what love you'd shared? That staircase was gone; the planks had reassembled, and the soul you had come to know was a newly crafted fiction. And so perhaps it was entirely possible - common, even - for you to look into the eyes of someone you'd been falling in love with...and fail to recognize them at all."
Bang.

"When it came down to it magick was a wish, a prayer, and a little, anchoring fiction. So was personhood, for that matter. So was a coherent subjectivity. And so was the courage to get up every morning and not plan to die."

""I feel sometimes it is so difficult to be conscious."
"I know," said Peter.
Such heavy feet. Like dragging rocks. "And I think anything would be easier. Anything at all.""