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[anandimide.livejournal.com]

Dear youngwizards: all my books are in storage, & I would be so grateful if someone could help me out by providing me with a quote I need from one of them... I think it's High Wizardry. Nita's dad says something like "Now, I know you love doing that wizardry stuff, we all want to be wizards!" & Nita thinks something like "if you wanted to be a wizard, you would be one, because the world really needs us." If anyone knows what quote I'm talking about, & wouldn't mind providing me with it, I'd be ever so grateful!

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[araine.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I don't have my copies of the books readily available (they are currently on loan to a friend), but I remember that quote, vaguely. I think it might actually be from A Wizard Abroad, in the beginning when Nita's parents are wanting her to "take a break" from wizardry.

I could be mistaken, though. Sorry to not have been much help!

[megotelek.livejournal.com]

It's from Deep Wizardry when Nita and Kit are coming clean to her parents. I just finished rereading it last night!

My book's at home, so I can come edit later with the exact quote if nobody else has it handy, but Nita's dad says something like, "If someone had given me the chance to be a magician when I was younger I would have jumped at it." And Nita thinks, Wizard, and if you would have, really, it would have been offered to you. There are never enough wizards...

[platypus]

Yeah, that's the context and I think you're almost perfect on the wording. Unfortunately my book's at home as well :).

[anandimide.livejournal.com]

Someone else got it... Thanks so much, though! :)

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Nita's father shook his head. "Nita. Look. I understand ... no. I sort of understand how you and Kit feel about this. Magic. . . ." He raised his hands, dropped them again, in a helpless gesture. "If someone offered me the chance to be a magician, I'd jump at it. . . ."
"A wizard," Nita said. And, No, you wouldn't, she thought. Because if you would have, really, you would have been offered it! There are never enough wizards. . . .
But her father was still talking. "But this business . . . endangering your­self, or endangering Kit— Your mother and I can't permit it. You're going to have to bow out."

[anandimide.livejournal.com]

Thank you! You rock. :)

[eavanmoore.livejournal.com]

I knew it would be you.