Magic Quotes

Desire creates a starting point. Without it, no magic can be put into action.

~ Lawren Leo

The Paco's Loco Tacos sign on my right lures me in. Not for the first time, I wonder if the tacos are crazy, if Paco is crazy, or if we are crazy for buying them. Well, I personally think a touch of crazy is one of the spices of life.

~ Lilo Abernathy

Just like when you're young and in love, a seven-hour plane ride can seem like a lifetime.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

A little manic was okay. A little manic paid the bills and got him up in the morning, made him magic when he needed it most.

~ Rainbow Rowell

magic can make things happen before you do it. It can make things have happened.

~ Jo Walton

It wasn’t that she believed in voodoo, precisely—but she believed in the people who believed in voodoo—and that was scary enough. -Coralee Ayers

~ Caitlin Rush

Once a month, ripe with psychic energy, the moon grows to Her zenith. Blazing full with the sun's rays through the night sky, it is with great compassion and love for her children that she luminesces.

~ Lawren Leo

If we are to wield great magic, then let us learn from great teachers: the alchemists -- magicians par excellence.

~ Lawren Leo

It isn't really magic, except that it is. It's not magic that reaches into the world ands changes things. It's all inside my body. I thought, sitting there, that everything is magic. Using things connects them to you, being in the world connects you to the world, the sun streams down magic and people and animals and plants grow from sunlight and the world turns and everything is magic.

~ Jo Walton

You can never be sure where you are with magic.

~ Jo Walton

I wish magic was more dramatic

~ Jo Walton

It's hard to get motivated fixing a compile-time syntax error when you can buy a powder that turns a house into a monster.

~ Ryan North

Life has this beautiful way of opening doors when you least expect it. How thy open is sometimes never known. But does that not only further justify the magic and the possibility to the thought, that there is more to life than that which meets thee eye.

~ Tania Elizabeth

You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.

~ Jo Walton

It was important not to offend against the laws of magic. If a woman left you it was because you did not cast the right spell over her, or else because someone else cast a stronger enchantment than yours, or else because your marriage was cursed in such a way that it cut the ties of love between husband and wife. Why did So-and-so enjoy success in his businesses? Because he visited the right enchanter. There was a thing in the emperor that rebelled against all this flummery, for was it not a kind of infantilization of the self to give up one's power of agency and believe that such power resided outside oneself rather than within? This was also his objection to God, that his existence deprived human beings of the right to form ethical structures by themselves.

~ Salman Rushdie

You kind of attribute this magic to music and as you meet the people you realize that they don’t contain the magic. They just channel it a little bit sometimes, but they never possess it. They never own it.

~ Kyle Morton

She was the kind of eleganceThat would never tarnish. A mixture of lace and mesh, Like a classic heirloom that begged to be worn.She was sharp intellect and quick wit.The type of woman that spoke her mind,Even if it shook.(Or even if no one was listening.)She was beautiful.But not someone you’d see in magazines, Her hips were too wide, her hair a mess of wispy tendrils, (Rather, she was actually very ordinary.) My, was she stubborn! She’d drive you mad!(Sometimes, you’d probably call her crazy.)But mostly, her laughter was a joyful moments. Like a warm towel fresh from the dryer,Or finding a twenty-dollar bill in your winter coat.And that was the true revelation.That magic does exist, It ran through her like a wild, fiery current.

~ M.j. Abraham

Unicorns are immortal. It is their nature to live alone in one place: usually a forest where there is a pool clear enough for them to see themselves-for they are a little vain, knowing themselves to be the most beautiful creatures in all the world, and magic besides. They mate very rarely, and no place is more enchanted than one where a unicorn has been born. The last time she had seen another unicorn the young virgins who still came seeking her now and then had called to her in a different tongue; but then, she had no idea of months and years and centuries, or even of seasons. It was always spring in her forest, because she lived there, and she wandered all day among the great beech trees, keeping watch over the animals that lived in the ground and under bushes, in nests and caves, earths and treetops. Generation after generation, wolves and rabbits alike, they hunted and loved and had children and died, and as the unicorn did none of these things, she never grew tired of watching them.

~ Peter S. Beagle

The world was fucking awful. It was a wretched, desolate place, a desert of meaninglessness, a heartless wasteland, where horrific things happened all the time for no reason and nothing good lasted for long.He'd been right about the world, but he was wrong about himself. The world was a desert, but he was a magician, and to be a magician was to be a secret spring - a moving oasis. He wasn't desolate, and he wasn't empty. He was full of emotion, full of feelings, bursting with them, and when it came down to it, that's what being a magician was. They weren't ordinary feelings - they weren't the tame, domesticated kind. Magic was wild feelings, the kind that escaped out of you and into the world and changed things. There was a lot of skill to it, and a lot of learning, and a lot of work, but that was where the power began: the power to enchant the world.

~ Lev Grossman

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

~ Francis Ford Coppola

Master of magic, god of war, Odin wanders alone.

~ F.t. Mckinstry

Red wine is different from white. Removing the grape skin does all the difference.

~ Viola Soul Calibur

Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial a structure civilization is, and how precariously it is poised upon the apex of a never-extinct volcano of poor and oppressed barbarism, superstition and ignorance. Modernity is a cap superimposed upon the Middle Ages, which always remain.

~ Will Durant

This girl is magic. She's wild incantations. She's that spark that lit me back to life and I'm burning for her.

~ Rebecca Paula

Someone once said that love is the closest thing to magic that this world has, but magic enchants, deceives and casts a spell.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

If you could possibly understand how precious and powerful your experience of this one lifetime as yourself is, you wouldn't be trying to go anywhere else.If you could know the perfection of time and space,You would slow each moment downTo drain every possible nuance of juice and flavor from it.When you leave this place, your body and mind and the earth which holds you, you will look back and only wish you had known the immense richness that you hurried through trying to find other better states of being.But this is the best bite.Heaven is here.Nirvana is now.As soon as you know that for sureYour life will never be the same again.In fact, in every way it seeks to get your attention. begs you to awaken to the magic right before your eyes.

~ Jacob Nordby

Earth or Fillory, did it even matter? What was the huge conundrum? Everywhere you looked there was so much richness, you could never exhaust it.

~ Lev Grossman

Your Ancestors Called it Magic, but You Call it Science. I Come From a Land Where They Are One and the Same.

~ Thor Odinson

It is not any common earth,Water or wood or air,But Merlin’s Isle of GramaryeThat you and I will fare.

~ Rudyard Kipling

Whatever form it might take, enjoy the magic! Remember, Disneyland is all about you.

~ Leslie Le Mon

Dark, primitive magic. Swords Against Death.

~ John Darnielle

Many stories begin with a dream, but it is rare when the dream is the story itself.

~ K.m. Randall

Ferocity is a trait highly regarded amongst us.

~ Stefan Mroczkowski

It was like magic, but so much of magic is about misdirection, whereas so much of redemption is straightforward and ordinary, piercing true and lit with surprise.

~ Geoffrey Wood

I can make you feel, and I can scare you for real.-Misty Lee

~ Misty Lee

The Universe has your back. Instead of trying to control the outcome, just enjoy the journey.

~ Dawn Gluskin

There's magic in recognizing a kindred spirit, and an even greater power in letting yourself love them. When it scares you, let it - that's your ego letting go.

~ Jacqueline Koyanagi

9 likes Like Facebook_icon“Read this to yourself. Read it silently.Don't move your lips. Don't make a sound. Listen to yourself. Listen without hearing anything.What a wonderfully weird thing, huh? NOW MAKE THIS PART LOUD! SCREAM IT IN YOUR MIND! DROWN EVERYTHING OUT.Now, hear a whisper. A tiny whisper. Now, read this next line in your best crotchety- old man voice:Hello there, sonny. Does your town have a post office?Awesome! Who was that? Whose voice was that? It sure wasn't yours! How do you do that?How?! It must've been magic.

~ Bo Burnham

The lucid dream, located as it is at a crossroads between worlds and states of consciousness, places the magician in a unique position to influence the delicate balance of consciousness and the interplay it has on matter in the waking state, and is thus an opportunity to test one’s ability in the art of adjusting the mutable fabric of Maya.

~ Zeena Schreck

Yeah, but what we need are some fighters who know how to take down a wolf. I know three.If you are going to get the Pigs, you'll need backup. They're not to be trifled with.

~ K.m. Randall