“You make magic,' he exclaimed, 'without even trying'.”
“But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain”
“Fairy godmothers didn't exist, and even if they did, they wouldn't wave a magic wand and make everything better.(Not without a contract, anyway.)”
“magic persists without usno matter what we may do to try to spoil it”
“M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them, and dreams, and, I hope, even a few surprises...”
“You used your power to toss one rock at me?" he exclaimed, an almost comic note of incredulity in his voice. "On the contrary," I heard Dorian say pleasantly. "I didn't use magic for that. I just threw it.”