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That's the thing about magic; you've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.

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I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. Or under a hill. I wa...more

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I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; th...more

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I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a he...more

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So she goes to see the Old Man of the Mountains–looks just like you, Bear. Same face, same hair. A big old bear, sitting up there on the top of the mo...more

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It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in wh...more

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Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shini...more

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I do know that the gardens of the first lands are still lying there, right under the skin of the world- pulsing the way our heartbeat drums under our ...more

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Everybody has a soul." I turn to Pelly. "And that means you, too." "I'm not so sure of that," he says. "What does it feel like?" "Having a soul?" I lo...more

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Not only do we all have magic, it's all around us as well. We just don't pay attention to it. Every time we make something out of nothing, that's an a...more

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Everything has a spirit and it's all connected. If you think about that, if you live your life by it, then you're less likely to cause any hurt. It's ...more

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I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us. And we remain stories. But too often we allow th...more

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Life's an act of magic, too. Claire Hamill sings a line in one of her songs that really sums it up for me: 'If there's no magic, there's no meaning.' ...more

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The faerie represent the beauty we don't see, or even choose to ignore. That's why I'll paint them in junkyards, or fluttering around a sleeping wino....more

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Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales," she told me. "It doesn't save us. We have ...more