Magic isn't inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people. — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen the way it does in books.… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“I'm so glad I have my own copy. I can read them again and again. I can read them again and again… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
You know, class is like magic. There's nothing there you can point to, it evaporates if you try to analyse it, but… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen the way it does in books.… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“At home I walked through a haze of belongings that knew, at least vaguely, who they belonged to. Grampar’s chair resented anyone… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“Doing is doing. Does it mean that it doesn't matter if it's magic or not, anything you do has power and consequences… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real but it's… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“I figured it out this afternoon, when they let me take a walk around the grounds, that these cows are stupid. Bovine. I knew… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen the way it does in books. It makes… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
You know, class is like magic. There's nothing there you can point to, it evaporates if you try to analyse it, but it's real… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“The thing with dying, well, with death really, is that there's a difference between being someone who knows they can really die at any… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“My ideal relationship with a book is that I will read it for the first time entirely unspoiled. I won’t know anything whatsoever about… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“Anyway, while most people can't see fairies anyway because they don't believe in them, seeing them isn't a bad thing. Some of the most… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“Aujourd’hui, rien. That’s what Louis XVI wrote in his diary on the day of the storming of the Bastille.” — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
