Magic Quotes

She told me that if magic gives people what they want, then not using magic can give them what they need.

~ Terry Pratchett

The King had advertised the old magic tea set, but for some reason, no one wanted sugar teeth that could gouge their eyes out.

~ Heather Dixon

Be kind and generous to your fellows, but hard and relentless with yourself.

~ Franz Bardon

Mystical insight and enlightenment occur when the veil between the worlds is lifted, the worlds are bridged, the gap closes, and we cross over.

~ Tom Cowan

Then sudden Felagund there swayingSang in answer a song of staying,Resisting, battling against power,Of secrets kept, strength like a tower,And trust unbroken, freedom, escape;Of changing and of shifting shape,Of snares eluded, broken traps,The prison opening, the chain that snaps.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

...for a country whose people ceased to believe in magic soon lost much of their ability to imagine and dream, and before long, they ceased to believe--or hope-- for anything.

~ Mercedes Lackey

(Evil people) do not believe in forgiveness. Their transgressions are either punished or not punished. That is the only result that matters.

~ Daniel Mchugh

A man without equals is a dangerous man indeed. He must exercise the most difficult of attributes, restraint.

~ Daniel Mchugh

At its most elemental, a spell is no more than a recipe for change.

~ Gregory Maguire

Something soft turn to stone within her. She had no choice. She had to fight. She had to win. She would learn. And then she'd free them.Or join them.

~ Amber Argyle

At least he possessed enough sense to recognize how little sense he possessed.

~ Daniel Mchugh

He wanted to write someone and demand a refund on his dark side which clearly ought to have irresistible magical power but had turned out to be defective.

~ Eliezer Yudkowsky

A man walked across the moors from Razorback to Lancre town without seeing a single marshlight, head-less dog, strolling tree, ghostly coach or comet, and had to be taken in by a tavern and given a drink to unsteady his nerves.

~ Terry Pratchett

I think it simply comes down to fantasy being the language I speak. While I cannot get into epic sword and sorcery, I see the world as having the potential to be slightly off-kilter. I have run into people who do not quite seem human – though of course they are – and have been privy to coincidences that almost make me believe in magic. Fantasy is sometimes just asking yourself, “Well, what if you are wrong? What if the world doesn’t work the way you think? What would that mean?

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Where are we? Ni asked.This is my work place and the center ofUniverse as well. Simone said.Do you mean the tower is in the center of Universe? Ni asked“I mean that we are both in space and inside the tower at the same time.Why is it so dark here? Ni asked.At the beginning, it is always dark. Simone replied, Then everything comes into existence little by little.Even Light is born out of Darkness.

~ Leora Cika Waldman

Why all this death?You might as easily ask ‘Why all this life?’.

~ Daniel Mchugh

Those of strong character and training are chosen by fate. They cannot help but rise to the forefront when their nations are troubled.

~ Daniel Mchugh

Now that the barn has burned down, I can see the moon. - Persian proverb

~ Samantha Combs

Change & transformation. That kind of magic.

~ Julia Green

It won’t be the same. Just because we have the choice of having anything we want without having to lift a finger, we don’t have to take the shortcut. As you’ve seen, we enjoy doing most of the things by ourselves. Food cooked or a house built by hand is more precious.

~ Liz Grace Davis

People are always looking for magic, when the natural world holds true miracles

~ Avery Williams

Fuck me, I thought. I can do magic.

~ Ben Aaronovitch

The pale pink light of dawn sparkled on branch and leaf and stone. Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every drip of water turned to diamond. Flowers and mushrooms alike wore coats of glass. Even the mud puddles had a bright brown sheen. Through the shimmering greenery, the black tents of his brothers were encased in a fine glaze of ice. So there is magic beyond the Wall after all.

~ George R.r. Martin

Magic. It can get a guy killed.

~ Jim Butcher

Every libromancer had a first book. Etched more sharply into my memory than my first kiss, this book had been my magical awakening.

~ Jim C. Hines

You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen the way it does in books. It makes those chains of coincidence. That's what it is.

~ Jo Walton

You will remember that Albertus Magnus, after describing minutely the process by which spirits may be invoked and commanded, adds emphatically that the process will instruct and avail only to the few - that a man must be born a magician! - that is, born with a peculiar physical temperament, as a man is born a poet. Rarely are men in whose constitution lurks this occult power of the highest order of intellect - usually in the intellect there is some twist, perversity, or disease.' (The House And The Brain)

~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton

We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive. All we can do is write dutifully and day after day, every day, giving our work the very best of what we are capable. I don't that we can consciously put the magic in; it doesn't work that way. When the magic comes, it's a gift.

~ Madeleine L'engle

When he reached his own room again, he found Khloe curled up on his bed, asleep. He stood over her, watching her sleep peacefully for a few moments before taking a deep breath and moving to the other side of the bed. He sat down on top of the covers next to her and watched the rise and fall of her chest as she slept. He withdrew a leather bond journal from the nightstand drawer and tried to push Hecate’s words from his mind.Khloe is yours to deal with.

~ Lia Davis

They took form in a bedroom, Khloe realized with a scowl. He noticed and gave her a sideways grin. Arrogant ass. Laugh it up, demon.

~ Lia Davis

One misspoken word and the world will no longer know you. Mark Andrew Ramsay

~ Brendan Carroll

I did feel a 'something', like a catch in the silence at the moment of creation.

~ Ben Aaronovitch

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere - Carl Sagan

~ T.s. Garp

Just because you don’t know how on Earth something might be achieved doesn’t mean you shouldn’t allow yourself to really, really want it. That’s the essence of a dream, the realms of magic and of miracles.

~ Silvia Hartmann

Then, idly scratching his nose, he walks to the bookcase in the living room and stoops before a set of drab brown Victorian volumes gathering dust on the second shelf from the bottom.How amusing, he thinks, as he withdraws one of them-amusing that a key to dark and ancient rites should survive in such innocuous-looking form.A young fool like Freirs would probably refuse to believe it. Like the rest of his doomed kind, he'd probably expect such lore to be found only in ancient leather-bound tomes with gothic lettering and portentously sinister titles. He'd search for it in mysterious old trunks and private vaults, in the restricted sections of libraries, in intricately carved wood chests with secret compartments.But there are no real secrets, the Old One knows. Secrets are ultimately too hard to conceal. The keys to the rites that will transform the world are neither hidden nor rare nor expensive. They are available to anyone. You can find them on the paperback racks or in any second-hand bookshop.

~ T.e.d. Klein

His harmonic words could weave the fabric of time or spin matter from nothingness if the mood suited him.

~ Lita Burke

I am come,' the Demon said simply, in a droning monotone. 'I am with the dead of the lake. Come to me.' Then the appearance of the skull-face vanished and the blood burst into a shroud of flame, spreading through the throne room in a storm of brilliant red and yellow. The screams could be heard half a league away.

~ Ian Livingstone

That guy with the silver hair, he’s your dad, right?” Amber questioned, surveying the scene. “Yes,” I said, reluctant to say anything but, considering what was happening, figured was the least of my worries. “Ooo la la. He’s, like, totally diesel. Look at those arms.” She went on, admiring my dad to a sickening degree. “All right, jailbait, back off. It’s practically incest.”She sucked air through her teeth. “I know,” she said regretfully. “But a girl can dream. And I have a feeling he’s going to be starring in a lot of them.

~ Brandi Salazar

I pull my power more tightly around me like a magic binky.

~ Sam Cheever

Any ceremony performed in the absence of reasonable knowledge as to cause and effect is magic.

~ Bernard Wolfe