The Magician Who Rose From Failure: Volume 2

“Humans need power to get most anything done. Not just physical power, but power of spirit, and that don’t come just by callin’ for it.”

“As long as people have feelings, there’s always gonna be love and hate, and feelings always get in the way of clear thinking. It’s just the way things are.”

There were three golden questions you needed to ask yourself when creating magic. Which phenomenon would the spell make use of? How would the spell manifest? What effect would the spell have? Without a clear answer to all three of them, your spell would never be perfected.

Books were for exploring, not reading. That was what the man’s father always said. You had to be constantly inquisitive to make proper use of your literacy, first in finding the books that were meant for you to read, then in properly ferreting out the information you needed from within them, and lastly in determining the area in your life where you could apply said information practically. Anything less fell short of “exploring.”