Magic Quotes

Can you sacrifice people?' I asked. 'Take their magic that way?''Yes,' he said. 'But there's a catch.''What's the catch?''You get hunted down even unto the ends of the Earth and summarily executed.

~ Ben Aaronovitch

This magical universe is so faithful in waiting for us to get out of our own way. No matter how long you have gone astray, when you take action, the universe moves to support the act. Move in the direction of your goals and watch the magic flow.

~ Steve Maraboli

Drugs have a long history of use in magic in various cultures, and usually in the context of either ecstatic communal rituals or in personal vision quests. However compared to people in simple pastoral tribal situations most people in developed countries now live in a perpetual state of mental hyperactivity with overactive imaginations anyway, so throwing drugs in on top of this usually just leads to confusion and a further loss of focus.Plus as the real Shamans say, if you really do succeed in opening a door with a drug it will thereafter open at will and most such substances give all they will ever give on the first attempt.

~ Peter J. Carroll

There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think.

~ Michael Morpurgo

As Wendy watched them they burst into a chord of tinkling, girlish laughter. She felt a smile touch her own lips; not one of them could be under sixty.

~ Stephen King

[A] competent magician should have the ability to stand still at a bus stop with closed eyes and have the entire universe disappear apart from a single blazing visualised sigil or muttered spell.

~ Peter J. Carroll

There is magic in this wonderful life, but only if you choose to do more than just exist; the magic is found when we choose to live.

~ Steve Maraboli

Oberon’s been kidnapped along with one of the werewolves, and that’s why we’re all so upset. We’ll talk more tomorrow, and I promise to answer all your questions if I survive the night,” I said. The widow’s eyebrows raised. “Ye’ve got all these nasty pooches to run around with and ye still might die?” “I’m going to go fight with a god, some demons, and a coven of witches who all want to kill me,” I said, “so it’s a distinct possibility.” “Are y’goin’ t’kill ’em back?” “I’d certainly like to.” “Attaboy,” the widow chuckled. “Off y’go, then. Kill every last one o’ the bastards and call me in the mornin’.

~ Kevin Hearne

The first handkerchief was tied to a second, yellow handkerchief. He fed both through the window and kept pulling. Attached to it was a red one. Then a green one. “Go away, you goddamn clown!” Jenny ordered. But Benny the Clown continued to pull out handkerchief after handkerchief. Five…ten…fifteen…then… That’s not a handkerchief.

~ Blake Crouch

Her voice, unfolding like a tiny bright memory in the darkest, furthest corner of my mind.

~ Kami Garcia

I look at the others, simpering courtiers and visiting dignitaries, all unsuspecting of what is to come. A merciful man should spare them, but I had mercy cut out of me at a young age.

~ A.f. Stewart

It’s not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it’s that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.

~ Nick Harkaway

Linc was so amazed at what he saw and heard, “This is sooo cool. I love this place. This looks way better than a day spotting weird people at Walmart.

~ S.w. Lothian

I learned that the day The Viper's Drag slipped from between my fingers. But whatever might be lost or broken or forgotten is nothing compared to the miraculous rebirth that occurs every time the needle hits the groove. Here is Fats Waller Himself, not dead but present, so present that he overwhelms the well-ordered precincts of the living room. The sound sprawls. What vibrates here has more life than any room.

~ Geoffrey O'brien

Just one moment of madnessCan rescind a lifetime of moments.Lord Heikan

~ Joseph Henry Gaines

For a split second, Harry thought how absurd it was for Tonks to expect the dummy to hear her talking that quietly through a sheet of glass, when there were buses rumbling along behind her and all the racket of street full of shoppers. Then he reminded himself that dummies could not hear anyway.

~ J.k. Rowling

This is beyond understanding. said the king. You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?And Merlin said quietly, Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.

~ John Steinbeck

Books - Snell smiled - are a kind of magic.

~ Jasper Fforde

Technically,' I said, I'm not breaking any of the Laws of Magic. I'm not robbing you of your will, so I'm clear of the Fourth Law. And you didn't get loose, so I'm clear of the Seventh Law. The Council can bite me.'The bone ridges above Chauncy's eyes twitched. 'Surely, that is merely a colorful euphemism, rather than a statement of desire.''It is.

~ Jim Butcher

To resist and subdue Nature is to make for one's self a personal and imperishable life: it is to break free from the vicissitudes of Life and Death.

~ Aleister Crowley

There are no miracles on Mondays.

~ Amy Neftzger

...Moonlight possesses no alchemy to transmute good motives to base, but it does excite love magic...

~ John Geddes

...There is a tale, as old as the Ancient Ones themselves, that one would arise who has that gift: to sing all the chantments, the high notes and the low, the swift rhythms and the slow. And this person would be more powerful than even the Ancient Ones were, as powerful as the gods themselves.

~ Kate Constable

...loving a fairy lady with a magic song will leave you desolate on a cold hillside ... but from there you can see the stars...

~ John Geddes

As long as we don't cut off our hearts, the inner workings of the universe illuminate before us.

~ Rivera Sun

We learned the seven traditional ways to make words unclear.Seven? That many? Which was the most effective?Poor grammar skills.

~ Lita Burke

I have no cause to love Mr. Norrell- far from it. But I know this about him: he is a magician first and everything else second- and Jonathan is the same. Books and magic are all either of them really care about.

~ Susanna Clarke

At home I walked through a haze of belongings that knew, at least vaguely, who they belonged to. Grampar’s chair resented anyone else sitting on it as much as he did himself. Gramma’s shirts and jumpers adjusted themselves to hide her missing breast. My mother’s shoes positively vibrated with consciousness. Our toys looked out for us. There was a potato knife in the kitchen that Gramma couldn’t use. It was an ordinary enough brown-handled thing, but she’d cut herself with it once, and ever after it wanted more of her blood. If I rummaged through the kitchen drawer, I could feel it brooding. After she died, that faded. Then there were the coffee spoons, rarely used, tiny, a wedding present. They were made of silver, and they knew themselves superior to everything else and special.None of these things did anything. The coffee spoons didn’t stir the coffee without being held or anything. They didn’t have conversations with the sugar tongs about who was the most cherished. I suppose what they really did was physiological. They confirmed the past, they connected everything, they were threads in a tapestry.

~ Jo Walton

The world was all magic, and he had a special bottle of it in his right hand.

~ William Steig

The true magic of novels dwells within us individually. Each reader will interpret every single character, scene, and metaphor in a slightly different way

~ Carl Henegan

People who go to Disney who have magic in themselves experience magic there, just as people who go to the grocery store who have magic in themselves experience magic at the grocery store. The principle is simple: fun, joy, and happiness, are something we bring to life, not something life, circumstance, or situation bring to us. There are truly no magic kingdoms, only magic people. Fun, joy and happiness are choices, orientations, approaches, attitudes, a way of living in the world, not the world itself...

~ David W. Jones

Is my world turning into Harry Potter's?!

~ Jada Berglund

You know what happens at any magic show? When the magician says ‘look here, look here,’ the audience looks only there and nowhere else. And that’s exactly what happened at the earnings conference today.

~ Ali Sheikh

Cordelia was thinking how human beings can invent words, how they can line up their invented words side by side on paper. It was magic.

~ Leonie Swann

...the magic of love runs at cross purposes with the rhythm of living...

~ John Geddes

Her eyes were like the sea before a storm on the Carolina coast.

~ Kami Garcia

Every little thing she does is magic.

~ The Police

These last few months Vida had started believing in all kinds of strange things she'd have laughed at when we lived back in Avalon. She'd tried every spell she could find in the dusty old books she brought home from thrift shops and garage sales; none of them ever worked, and it was awful watching her try.

~ Judith Clarke

...yes I understand your spells—your sex magic—at least, I know this: all lights dim when you walk in...

~ John Geddes

Magic will find those with pure hearts, even when all seems lost.

~ Morgan Rhodes