Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“Being alive is the Magic—being strong is the Magic.”
- Source
- The Secret Garden
- Date
- 1911
- Local voice
- Fictional character · Colin Craven
Meaning of “Being alive is the Magic—being strong is the…”
Colin’s chant celebrates life and increasing strength as something wondrous after a long period in which he expected decline and death.
Where does it come from?
The Secret Garden (1911), Chapter XXIII, “Magic.” Colin continues the chant with “Being alive is the Magic—being strong is the Magic.” This remains fictional child speech inside the novel’s recovery narrative and is not evidence that belief or positive thinking cures illness.
Why the local voice matters
Colin chants this in The Secret Garden.
