“Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.”— Susanna Clarke Related Quotes “Folks around here like to say we came from the stars. Perhaps it’s simpler to think of us not as human but as creatures made of stardust–that if you cut us, not blood but constellations will pour from out wounds.”— Leslye Walton “If one is fooled by magic, then isn’t the magic as good as real?”— Keith Buckley “Trust in the fictive process, in the occult interweaving of text and event must be unwavering and absolute. This is the magic place, the mad place at the spark gap between word and world.”— Alan Moore