When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it. - Charles de Lint

Everybody makes the same mistake. Fortune-telling doesn’t reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so that you can get a good look at it.

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

She’s always so ready to believe anything that anyone tells her, so long as it’s magical.
Well, I believe in magic, too, but it’s the magic that can turn a caterpillar into a butterfly, the natural wonder and beauty of the world that’s all around me. I can’t believe in some dreamland being real.