3 Quotes by Terry Schott

I do that a lot—study something and give it everything I’ve got until my gut tells me that I’ve learned enough. When that happens, I drop it just as quickly as I picked it up. There is a lot for me to do and see in this life of mine and I don’t have time to waste studying just one or two things for fifty years. Oh, the poor people who do that. They’re not playing the game very well, if you ask me.

Chapter 25Magic, true magic, is safe and secure in the world for one simple reason: no one believes it exists. … We explain it away as luck or call it coincidence. … Magic does exist. It could be easily observed if only people were looking for it in the right places. … The extraordinary is simply that—a little bit extra than ordinary. There is great power in that little bit extra.

Chapter 57“Sounds like a strange grouping,” one marketing expert said from beside Nadine. “Cults, revolutions, and religions. All very different creatures.”“Not at all. The only significant difference is the motivator for the action. A cult is a religion that doesn’t gain popular acceptance. Revolutions follow a government or policy instead of a god. Religion centres around a god that becomes accepted by enough people to gain credibility.