You evah hear of a magic screw?' I cough back a laugh. 'No. No, sir.

Learn to master yourself-to understand both your fears and your desires. That's the key to magic. Then, no one shall have any hold over you. Remember... the magic (sic)... is a living thing, joined to whomever it touches and changed by them as well... You must come to know everything-even your darkest corners. Especially those...Everything has its price.

I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one book I needed and whisper the necessary page numbers. Like a speakeasy. With books.

Prepared to fly, even if she has to loose her legs to do it

I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world.

If God has nothing better to do than punish schoolgirls for a bit of tomfoolery, then I've no use for God.

Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. "Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cursed this power. I've both enjoyed and misused it. And I've hidden it away. Now I must try to wield it correctly, to marry it to a purpose and hope that is enough.