It's funny and fantastic; that line you quoted was the last one I wrote.

Ha! God knows why, but the lines that most often get quoted back to me in my own fiction are almost always the ones I added slap-dash at the last minute! There might be something for me to learn, there.

And I think this is maybe part of Kurt's magic, too; his relationships with his things and his memories.

I like this. Kurt and his talismans; you could write a book. Clothes and brooches and songbirds and stage props. He feels their power, but sometimes he makes the mistake of thinking they're his only, or greatest, source of power, when really, they're just amplifiers and conduits (and sometimes elude or impair his control). That's what Thibodeaux tries to tell him, isn't it? "Child, the magic is in you."

I first became aware of Lang when Tolkien insulted him. *g* Have you read Tolkien's essay, "On Fairy Stories"? Google the .pdf; you'd like it. He grumps at Lang for not taking fairy tales seriously as adult literature, and talks about the power of fantasy and mythic tropes and symbols, and eucatastrophe, and throws in some stuff about Christianity at the end that's right up your alley, give the kinds of things you've been tugging out of Glee, lately:

Abusus non tollit usum. Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.