“They're power-hungry, the mundane said of the magical people. They're immoral, people said, and they're scary. Playing with the dark arts could plunge me into evil. I'd be pulled toward depravity. Blasphemy would begin to seem like truth, bad like… — Christine Wicker Copy Share Image
“They're power-hungry, the mundane said of the magical people. They're immoral, people said, and they're scary. Playing with the dark arts could plunge me… — Christine Wicker Copy Share Image
“Tied to the physical, deaf to the eternal, riveted by my own shortcomings, I was thinking only of what a bad choice I'd made when choosing a partner for a chat. This guy was faking timidity to lure someone over. If I said victim, he was likely to start gnawing my neck. If I said vampire, he would demand proof.… — Christine Wicker Copy Share
“It's often the outcasts, the iconoclasts, the hyper-religious, the young people, sometimes middle-aged women, those who have the least to lose because they don't… — Christine Wicker Copy Share Image
“So come Cinderella, let me take you to the ball again. Perhaps you will see more than I did, or perhaps you will begin… — Christine Wicker Copy Share Image
“Enchantment frightens us for good reason. Whether it's enchantment of the ordinary kind or the magical kind, it may very well change us, and… — Christine Wicker Copy Share Image
“She wants him to become enchanted, to enter so deeply into her distress that his view of the world is changed and the insult… — Christine Wicker Copy Share Image
