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Seven-Day Magic

This book is a fictional narrative that delves into the life-changing effects of magical abilities that manifest within a seven-day span. The story likely follows a protagonist as they navigate the complexities and consequences of newfound magical powers. more

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Edward Eager
Edward Eager

Edward Eager, born on June 20, 1911, and died on October 23, 1964, was an English dramatist. Known for his humorous and imaginative works, Eager's books were beloved by both children and adults. more

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“there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's asleep. I say, I know that you're there, so don't be sad. then I put him back, but he's singing a little in there, I haven't quite let him die and we sleep together like that with our secret pact and it's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't weep, do you?”

“I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while children sleep.”

“We can say that true gratitude does not give rise to the debtor's ethic because it gives rise to faith in future grace. With true gratitude there is such a delight in the worth of God's past grace, that we are driven on to experience more and more of it in the future...it is done by transforming gratitude into faith as it turns from contemplating the pleasures of past grace and starts contemplating the promises of the future.”