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At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism. — Tea Obreht

He looked in her eyes as if trying to tell her he loved her without words. She looked back at him as if to say, I know. — David Soto Jr.

There is nothing to me but you. I know it's pathetic but, oh darling, it's true. — F.K. Preston

To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost. — Leslye Walton

But why are you giving this to me if you don't believe?"

"Because I know that you do. — Adria J. Cimino

Magical Realist writer write the ordinary as miraculous and the miraculous as ordinary. — Bruce Holland Rogers

We prayed the moon would unstopper long enough to suck us through to the other side so we could see how dull the stars were at their backsides. — Lindsay Hunter

Forthwith I crush this acid lemon
Freeing myself of the malefic venom
Hither I let thee rotten
Let my curse be forgotten. — Camilla Isley

magical realism? Aren't we all making shit up, — Sherman Alexie

All around us is a nothing that stretches on for infinity. We humans can barely comprehend that. If we comprehend it we are rarely pleased. — F.K. Preston

The Waverley sisters had married men as steadfast and normal as the women were mercurial and strange. — Sarah Addison Allen

It is easier to start a war than to end it. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Everyone needs sisters. — Erin Entrada Kelly

Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks [...] He wonders if the poem of the circus could possibly be bottled. — Erin Morgenstern

If I stay here, I will be just fine. Before I shut the door, I got a box of crackers from the kitchen, so I will be fine. — Kathleen Alcala

Where do they go, these dreams of mine? Do they live? Do they die? Do they fall? Do they fly? — F.K. Preston

Is Shimmer a floor wax or a dessert topping? Is an electron a wave or a particle? Slipstream tells us that the answer is yes. — John Kessel

To be free means always leaving ... or returning to a place where leaves never fall. — Rich Shapero

When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right ones a fighting chance- Victoria Barron- dedicated attorney and protagonist of Misplaced — SL Hulen

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.
She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. — Oscar Wilde

Carry on the Flame to a new dawn I am with you.
~the Goddess of the Stars and the Sea — Jodine Turner

Dreams are memories we've lost to sleep. — F.K. Preston

The underlying melody via every rock, plant, animal, sky and star, inside the water, from the dirt, through the light: only love lasts. — Melina Sempill Watts

The closet is a closet, but it's also a rocket or a tree house. Your mind is a palace, as long as you go in the right rooms. — Erin Entrada Kelly

Magical realism as a declaration in the text is usually when someone can't speak and then they must be magically reinvigorated in some way. — Fred D'Aguiar

We write the earth we stand upon. — Laura K. Cowan

Her beauty was ethereal, knocking on the door of the part of his psyche that still believed in magic and miracles. — D.A. Henneman

All that is required of you is an open mind and a little patience. — F.K. Preston

She kissed him first, and all the rest followed. — Alice Hoffman

Realism can break a writer's heart. — Salman Rushdie

Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism. — Neil Gaiman

For these were the days when Time was still the horizon of beauty and had not yet begun its slow inexorable destructions. — J. Mulrooney

My creativity keeps me from starving. Humanity keeps my life mundane. Loving secures my love for life, but my imagination keeps me sane. — F.K. Preston

Violence can read like poetry. You just have to describe the act as if you're in love with the way your characters bleed. — F.K. Preston

You know, it would be much less trouble if you were willing to bat your magic eyelashes. — Jamie Le Fay

I am undependable. You might get gritty contemporary with one book, science fiction, magical realism, or high fantasy with another. — Mary E. Pearson

I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you're too busy living. — F.K. Preston

When everything is said and done, the only thing that really matters is the quality of the soul you build during the life you're given. — Kayt C. Peck