“Ella, if it's magic, then nothing is supposed to happen.”

“in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen”

“Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.”

“Then I said something. I said, Suppose, just suppose, nothing had ever happened. Suppose this was for the first time. Just suppose. It doesn't hurt to suppose. Say none of the other had ever happened. You know what I mean? Then what? I said.”

“You know, class is like magic. There's nothing there you can point to, it evaporates if you try to analyse it, but it's real and it affects how people behave and makes things happen.”

“Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.”