“Then, as if by magic, everything changed. Of course, it wasn't magic, was it? It was just Teza, talking. It was just a visit to a laundry.”
“Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.”
“It wasn't my doing. It is the drink and the laudanum and the opium and that bloody refusal to live. That selfish grief. I thought I could change it with magic, but I can't. People will be who they are, and there is not enough magic in any world to change that.”
“That's one form of magic, of course." "What, just knowing things?" "Knowing things that other people don't know.”
“Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion. ”
“There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.”