"And there's no sex, hardly any love stuff at all, in Middle Earth, which always made me think, yes, the world would be better off without it."
- Jo Walton
"On the one hand, Gramma and Grampar never mentioned sex at all. They must have done it, or they wouldn’t have had Auntie Teg and my mother, but I don’t think they did it more than twice. Then there’s ..."
"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 pervasive and powerful. See; just like magic."
"magic can make things happen before you do it. It can make things have happened."
"It isn't really magic, except that it is. It's not magic that reaches into the world ands changes things. It's all inside my body. I thought, sitting there, that everything is magic. Using things conn..."
"You can never be sure where you are with magic."
"I wish magic was more dramatic"
"You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies."
"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 those chains of coincidence. That's what it is. It's like if you..."
"I'm so glad I have my own copy. I can read them again and again. I can read them again and again on trains, all my life, and every time I do I'll remember today and it will connect up. (Is that magic?..."