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“Morozko shot the fire a glance and it leaped up, roaring. Vasya gratefully sank down onto her heap of boughs and warmed her hands. "Will you teach me to do magic, too?" she asked him. "To make fire with my eyes?" The fire flared sudden and harsh on the bones of Morozko's face. "There is no such things as magic" "But you just —" "Things are or they are not, Vasya," he interrupted. "If you want something, it means you do not have it, it means you do not believe it is there, which means that it will never be there. The fire is or it is not. That which you call magic is simply not allowing the world to be other than as you will it.” — Katherine Arden
Morozko shot the fire a glance and it leaped up, roaring. Vasya gratefully sank down onto her heap of boughs and warmed her hands.
"Will you teach me to do magic, too?" she asked him. "To make fire with my eyes?"
The fire flared sudden and harsh on the bones of Morozko's face. "There is no such things as magic"
"But you just —"
"Things are or they are not, Vasya," he interrupted. "If you want something, it means you do not have it, it means you do not believe it is there, which means that it will never be there. The fire is or it is not. That which you call magic is simply not allowing the world to be other than as you will it.