"“Magic?” said Sykes. “Magic is that power that dwells somewhere in the back of our dreams, that makes us wish that miracles were possible and that a mortal man could have the ability to grasp a part of eternity, if only for a moment. Magic is the total of all the mysteries we can’t understand and the culmination of all the hopes we’ve ever thought possible. It is our last true miracle, and you know that it exists every time you feel the rain on your face, or hear the sound of children asking questions, or an old man laughing at a slightly off-color joke his nine-year-old grandson told at dinner. It is with us always, and it will comfort and protect us when the darkness arrive, holding our hand until the morning is in sight. It’s the reason that we go on living, even in the face of hopelessness. It’s the final mystery of the human heart, my friend. For it is there and only there that all true wizardry lies.”"
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Gary A. Braunbeck, The Hand Which Graces, in Denise Little (ed.) The Magic Shop (2004), , pp. 273-274
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