"We all start out knowing magic. We are born with
whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing
to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But
then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. We get it
churched out, spanked out, washed out, and combed out. We get put on the
straight and narrow and told to be responsible. Told to act our age.
Told to grow up, for God’s sake. And you know why we were told that?
Because the people doing the telling were afraid of our wildness and
youth, and because the magic we knew made them ashamed and sad of what
they’d allowed to wither in themselves." Robert R. McCammon.