“Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.”
“Captive. The word made Rumor shiver with delight.”
“Magic," the man in the grey suit repeats, turning the word into a laugh. "This is not magic. This is the way the word is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.”
“Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.”
“A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.”
“The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.”