“Magic. Magic had happened to him. He knew it would one day. He had always believed in magic, even whe the others had laughed at him, laughed because he was the eldest and ought to know better.”

—  Hilda Lewis

Source: The Ship that Flew (1939), Ch. 1 : The Magic Begins

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British writer 1896–1974

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