I think things are pretty magical, and that's it's less a matter of belief than it is one of just stopping to notice.

“You know what my mum once said?’ said Rosie… ‘She said that if a just-married c…”

“I'm a mother," said her mother, in her foodless flat where the dust did not dar…”

“That’s the moon,’ I said.‘Gran likes it like that,’ said Lettie Hempstock.‘But …”

“He shivered. His coat was thin, and it was obvious he would not get his kiss, w…”