“Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.”
Susanna Clarke book The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
Source: The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
“If there was any magic in this world that was not magic, it was wine.”
— Lev Grossman, book The Magician's Land
Source: The Magician's Land
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