Selected Passages
Selected passages
Most adults claim not to believe in magic, but Klara knows better. Why else would anyone play at permanence - fall in love, have children, buy a house in the face of all evidence there's no such thing? The trick is not to conver them. The trick is to get them to admit it.
If nothing else, Judaism had taught her to keep running, no matter who tried to hold her hostage. It had taught her to create her own opportunities, to turn rock into water and water to blood. It had taught her that such things were possible
"We know something about reality, my father and I. And I bet know it, too. Is it that reality is too much? Too painful, too limited, too restrictive of joy or opportunity? No" she says. "I think it's that reality is not enough. It's not enough to explain what we don't understand. It's not enough to account for the inconsistencies we see and hear and feel. It's not enough on which to pin our hopes, our dreamsour faith. Some magicians say that magic shatters your worldview. But I think magic holds the world together. It's dark matter; it's the glue of reality, the putty that fills the holes between everything we know to be true. And it takes magic to reveal how inadequate reality is."
Daniel rereads the email and worries it's too casual. He puts dear before Raj, then deletes it (Raj isn't dear to him, and neither Daniel nor Raj tolerate phoniness)