“The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.”

Jaime Pressly Opens Up About Her Divorce And Memoir

Edie : Girl On Fire (2006)
Context: But I really, since I exist, at all, I believe that it's possible for people... I've lived through impossible situations. So I believe in it. I just believe, and that's the magic... That's the whole thing, you talk about magic that there's to believe in, and it is there. But most people don't really believe in it. And I refuse, like, since I'm still alive and done the things I've done and seen things and understood things as far as I have, and I am alive, I mean physically intact. When I shouldn't be, according to medical reports and so forth. I mean I should be, not here. That's all there is to it. So the magic's working and it's a rare situation.

Source: Blood Promise

Source: The Sex Sphere (1983), p. 130

Source: Culture series, Inversions (1998), Chapter 7 (pp. 125-126)

Ender's Game series, Shadow of the Hegemon (2001)

Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)

Source: Mysteries