“If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.”
Source: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
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Variant: The same thing happened over and over: I would catch sight of some flawless man in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn’t do at all.
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Source: http://burts-snapback.tumblr.com/post/27261453499/i-love-thinking-that-there-is-magic-in-the-world, Chicago-Sun July 15, 2012, interview with Chris Colfer; archived.
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Context: I knew, and it was an illumination — one of those things one has always known, but never understood before — that all sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under flesh.
Context: I knew, and it was an illumination — one of those things one has always known, but never understood before — that all sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under flesh. If this goes, then the conviction of life goes too. But I could feel none of this. … I knew I was moving into a new dimension, further from sanity than I had ever been. <!-- p. 585
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