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Quote by Erin Morgenstern

“This is, in part, why there is less magic in the world today. Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all, and years upon years of teaching and sharing magic and worse. Writing it down in fancy books that get all dusty with age has lessened it, removed its power bit by bit.”

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Erin Morgenstern

Erin Morgenstern is an American author born on July 8, 1978. Her works are known for their fantasy elements and literary quality, with her most famous novel being 'The Night Circus'. Her writing is poetic and skilled at creating imaginative story worlds. more

“The first expert said he had attention deficit disorder. The second expert said the first was out of order. One said he was autistic, another that he was artistic. One said he had Tourette's syndrome. One said he had Asperger's syndrome. And one said the problem was that his parents had Munchausen syndrome. Still another said all he needed was a good old-fashioned spanking.”

“glancing back I got my first clear look at the monster. He was seven feet tall, easy, his arms and legs like something from the cover of Muscle Man magazine-bulging biceps and triceps and a bunch of other 'ceps, all stuffed like baseballs under vein-webbed skin. He wore no clothes except underwear-I mean, bright white fruit of the Looms.”

Men Firsts Looks Mean Easy White Clear Feet Arms Clothes Skins Baseball Fruit Seven Legs Monsters Bunch Magazines Muscles Tall Veins Underwear Like Something Arms And Legs Biceps Triceps

Author:Rick Riordan

“The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the flags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls.”

Doe Hands Past Turns Lines Cities Steps Written Streets Window Corners Flags Lightning Scratches

Book:Invisible Cities

Source: Invisible Cities

“I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking.”

Thinking Has Beens Made Born Creatures Glorious Precious Things

Book:The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

“Every day is important for us because it is a day ordained by God. If we are bored with life there is something wrong with our concept of God and His involvement in our daily lives. Even the most dull and tedious days of our lives are ordained by God and ought to be used by us to glorify Him.”

Ifs Important Used Our Lives Ought Concepts Bored Dull Daily Life Involvement Tedious Glorify

Book:Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts

Source: Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts

“People who can be very good can be very bad too.”

People Very Good

Book:My Father, Sholom Aleichem

Source: My Father, Sholom Aleichem

“I felt like a thief with a bagful of stolen glances.”

Felt Thieves Glances Stolen

Book:Written On The Body

Source: Written On The Body