Magic Quotes

The only thing more unpredictable than magic is language.

~ Sully Tarnish

The key to having good scales is a healthy diet of venison when you’re just a wee dragon lad.

~ Sully Tarnish

Dragons were notoriously finicky about whom they ate, and thought it the height of bad manners to be kept waiting by their selected fare.

~ Sully Tarnish

To love, to live, to feel so much that your world keeps spinning, faster and faster, in that wonderful, chaotic mess of humanity that you’d so hastily give up. Immortality is overrated. It is nothing but the ability to live through it all and not experience a single thing, to eat everything without tasting it at all. Isak’s eyes shone with a desperate need. He wanted, more than anything it seemed, to be like me, when all I wanted was to be like him.

~ Sophia Whittemore

Sometimes, it seemed, the business of a Witch or a Godmother was not so much using magic as knowing when not to use it.

~ Mercedes Lackey

She looked at her best friend as he unraveled the tightly wound cord from his heart and told her what she had been hoping to hear. from the upcoming The Witch of Belle Fleur

~ Isabelle Hardesty

For what is magic, but passion freed from reason?

~ Nenia Campbell

Before long, the smokey spectre appeared, as I knew it would, the barest whisper of a shadow, inky and incandescent. It darted forwards, then back, closer, then ppfft, it was gone in an instant, only to return, darker and more substantial. As ever, it grew bolder, and bolder, until finally it dared to drift through the window and into my home.Every night I had lain here, the geist had come.

~ Hazel Butler

Each part of your body corresponds with an element,” the Maiden explained. “Your hair is air. How you toss your head, play with your hair - that is all for air magic. You can command the wind. Arms are for fire,” she said, making fluttery, flame-like motions with her tendriled fingers and slim green arms. “Fire, fire elementals, electricity, light, and heat come from their movements. Water,” she said, swaying her hips, “is from your center. This is why your middle must be free to move. And earth is the feet, where you make contact with the mother of us all.

~ Christie Golden

She was tasked with guarding the doorway to the Otherworld, keeping the balance of nature (as much as anyone could in these modern times), and occasionally, helping a worthy seeker.

~ Deborah Blake

Is he evil? the dog asked, an eager gleam in his wide brown eyes. If he's evil, I'd be happy to eat him for you.

~ Deborah Blake

A Baba Yaga never breaks a promise. Legs, yes. Hearts, occasionally. But never a promise.

~ Deborah Blake

She wasn’t looking at herself in the glass, but out at a great silver moon hanging beyond a thin metal balcony that looked over the grey towers of a human city.

~ Denny B. Reese

Max, you cannot stay in the background forever. It is time to stand out in front. You have all that you need.” Analea

~ Kathy Cyr

Little boys jump, but they do not know where. Into the mouth of the demon lair. Hold still and you will see, in his hand is the key. Fire and brimstone. Brimstone and fire. Your ally is clever. a thief and a liar. All is not lost. You can turn it around. But, for a moment...all will be well.....peaceful and sound. Alice.

~ Kathy Cyr

You’re such a little moron, aren’t you? They will hunt you down to the ends of the earth. It’s nothing personal, just business. It’s all about survival, dear boy. Drusilla Blackwood

~ Kathy Cyr

Hurry up, Hodgeyboy! You run like a fat badger after Sunday tea. Mibbitwiss

~ Kathy Cyr

If you do not get to her time...............He will cut out her heart & feed it to the fishes.... Alice

~ Kathy Cyr

You have been gifted the Blood Diamond and are surrounded by all that is good. You will not fail as long as you believe.” Analea

~ Kathy Cyr

Kulwar Wolters, a gloved man I suspect to be a Cliothaum, can and could be anywhere.Cliothaumy’s an illegal skill, rare and hard to learn. It lets you burn memory to twist the world in certain ways. The more you use it, the less you know why. Magic never gives you anything back, there’s always a trick. Kulwar Wolters used it rarely, if at all. But his fingertips were burnt, I think.

~ Patrick Stuart

Magic is the word illiterates use for phenomena they can’t explain.

~ T.k. Kiser

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Magic isn’t a far-off phenomenon.

~ T.k. Kiser

I think when magic is dark enough, it can look like anything it wants.

~ Laura Oliva

I grabbed back at him just as incautiously with my hand and my magic both, even as he pressed magic on me from his side as well. His breath huffed out sharply, and our workings caught on one another, magic gushing into them.

~ Naomi Novik

You can't order me away, you pissant human-- I just did. Kas swept past him...

~ Susan Scott

This is the beginning of a new time,” Torius said, “a great moment for us. One of us has learnt the Tongue and freed a princess. I have saved him and killed the guards. No longer will we be slaves. No longer will the guards tell us what to do. No longer will we listen. We will fight till we get what we want!”A roar exploded from the children around him.“This is a revolution,” Torius went on. “You all remember the pain that you have felt when the guards have touched you. You all know the shame we carry within us at being treated like this. No more! We will stand!

~ Y.k. Willemse

Like a dried up spring, magic trickled forth with less and less strength, until one day, the people awoke and there was simply no more to be had.

~ Natalia Marx

Fine. Fine. Let’s try. You asked why bad things happen to good people. Well, the simple answer is, there are no bad things and there are no good people. Nothing bad ever happens to anyone and people are neither good nor bad. A person is nothing. A person does not exist. There are no people.

~ Dorothy Gravelle

By the second cycle of the solstice of the warm time, the One will face the enemy. And the One will unearth the Shield of the Northern Lights and smote the enemy with daring and intelligence. The heart of the One is pious and evil will cower. Couatl will rise.

~ Barbara T. Cerny

And the One will win the Armor of the Easter Dawn and defeat the enemy with audacity and wisdom. The body of the One is strong and ready to lead. Lammasu will pounce

~ Barbara T. Cerny

And the One will take the Sword of the Western Sun and triumph over the enemy with boldness and insight. The arm of the One is steady and heads will roll. Snow Giants will battle

~ Barbara T. Cerny

And the One will reveal the Bow of the Southern Star and conquer the enemy with courage and fine judgment. The sight of the One is true and the enemy cannot hide. Griffon will fly

~ Barbara T. Cerny

I love you all for bearing with me, whether I was asking your opinion on the best sources to base the magic in the book off of, hearing your suggestions on wording, or having an argument with you on just how that sentence has completely correct grammar. On that note, also telling me when the fantasy just got way too cheesy.

~ Kristyn Van Cleave

Was it magic? Of course it was.

~ Brian Jacques

You know how it is -- you get older, you get wiser, you start to ask yourself 'is it any use being able to summon creatures of the nether deeps when I could be watching BBC 4?

~ Kate Griffin

There were fat cats and skinny cats. The long-tailed and the bobbed. The daring young leapers, and the old windowsill sleepers. Balls of waddling fluff, smooth-coated prowlers, and hairless ones that looked fragile and wise. The tiger-striped, the ring-tailed, and the ones with matching coloured socks and mittens. There were tabbies and calicos. Manx and Persians. Siamese and Bombay. Ragdolls and Birmans. Maine Coons and Russian Blues. There were Snowshoes and Somalis, Tonkinese and Turkish, and many, many more. Brown and beige and orange and grey and black and white and silver cats, each with gleaming eyes of emerald, or sapphire, or amber. A rainbow of precious stones.

~ Brooke Burgess

I think one who thrives on death may be defeated by life.Elswyth, from A Precarious Journey Into Magic

~ Jenna Lindsey

I'll make my own magic' - A.D.Y.Howle

~ A.d.y. Howle

For every blissful moment you must an anguish meet.

~ Billie-Jo Williams