The fairy godmother Quotes

“She emerges from the station directly across from the restaurant. And she's right on time. Like magic, Sonya thinks, briefly saddened to realize that this is what magic means now: not being late, not getting lost on the subway. Whatever happened to the fairy godmothers, to all those bunnies yanked out of hats?”

“Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.”

“...for a country whose people ceased to believe in magic soon lost much of their ability to imagine and dream, and before long, they ceased to believe--or hope-- for anything.”

“Sometimes, it seemed, the business of a Witch or a Godmother was not so much using magic as knowing when not to use it.”