“Was it the Twilight of Magic? Perhaps. But only today's. Magic could never die while the sun had the power to rise again and man had the wish to seek.”
“Perhaps only those who had loved and lost could appreciate this magic.”
“Perhaps I had started to believe again in magic, or perhaps in love. Or perhaps they were the same thing.”
“She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.”
“If the world held magic powerful enough to make the elephant appear, then there must exist, too, magic in equal measure, magic powerful enough to undo what had been done. ”
“Tonight I had wrought magic powerful enough to have drawn the attention of a goddess. In that moment, though, I was certain of one thing: Of all the magic I possessed, none of it could begin to compare to the magic he and I created together.”