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There's a thing that happens in Hollywood, when you hand in a script with magic in it, and the people at the studio who read it say "We don't quite un...more

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That’s the moon,’ I said.‘Gran likes it like that,’ said Lettie Hempstock.‘But it was a crescent moon yesterday. And now it’s full. And it was raining...more

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It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.

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Up the narrow stairs and into the kitchen. Rosie's mother looked around and made a face as if to indicate that it did not meet her standards of hygien...more

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Rosies mother was a highly strung bundle of barely thought-through prejudices, worries and feuds.

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Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. ...more

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We think that tomorrow, unless we surrender, they may drop the moon on us." "You're joking.""Wish I was.

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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...

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When I was a boy, Ray Bradbury picked stories from his books of short stories he thought younger readers might like and published them as R Is for Roc...more

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Mr. Charles Dickens was serializing his novel Oliver Twist; Mr. Draper had just taken the first photograph of the moon, freezing her pale face on cold...more

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Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality.Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it...more

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If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else ...more

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In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing said in that language can be a lie. It is the most ...more

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I have dreamed of that song, of the strange words to that simple rhyme-song, and on several occasions I have understood what she was saying, in my dre...more

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The lovelorn came, too. The alone. The lunatics-they were brought here, sometimes. Got their name from the moon, it was only fair the moon had a chanc...more