She couldn’t tell her mother the truth; she’d never believe it. It would only upset her.

Edward Eager, Half Magic [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]

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Consider also:

  1. “Will we be burnt as witches?” Jane whirled on them furiously. “I wish,” she started to say. “Don’t!” Katharine almost screamed
  2. “I believe in believing six impossible things before breakfast, myself.”
  3. “When you have magic powers and know it, it can be a fine feeling, like a pleasant tingling inside. But in order to enjoy that tingling, you have to know just how much magic you have and what the rules are for using it.”
  4. “was it just an accident, or did we want so much to be magic we got that way, somehow?”
  5. “Suppose truth is not the aim of life. Imagine, all along great minds and intellects have been searching frantically for truth, looking in every nook and cranny of the world to uncover truth. It always seems to be slippery; when we finally grasp what we think is truth, it slips out of our hands and scurries off. Isn’t life all but a frantic search for truth?”