Magic Quotes - Page 11

• That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror and just like disappearing. Every Indian learns how to be a magician and learns how to misdirect attention and the dark hand is always quicker than the white eye and no matter how close you get to my heart you will never find out my secrets and I'll never tell you and I'll never show you the same trick twice. I'm traveling heavy with illusions.

  Sherman Alexie

  Eye, Heart, Dark

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, p.147, Open Road Media

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• The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.

  Iris Murdoch

  Theatre, Wonderful, Glory

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• Sig Sauer. Nine millimetres. Thirteen in the magazine. Big bullets. One of these hits you and it could blow your head off; something even the magic can't fix. Other than that you should be all right, presuming you remembered to wear the regulation above-ground micro-fibre jumpsuit recently patented by me. Then again, being a Recon jock, you probably didn't.

  Eoin Colfer

  Blow, Magazines, Regulation

  Eoin Colfer (2002). “Artemis Fowl: the arctic incident”, Viking

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• Desire is not always lessened by disgust. Nor can it be bestowed, like a favor, to those most deserving of it. And as my words bind my magic, so you can know the truth. If she doesn’t desire his kiss, she won’t be free.

  Cassandra Clare

  Kissing, Desire, Favors

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• I'd spent a night with Ranger a while ago, and I knew what happened when he was encouraged. Ranger knew how to make a woman want him. Ranger was magic.

  Janet Evanovich

  Night, Want, Rangers

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Eleven on Top”, p.284, Macmillan

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• We sit there, our eyes locked on one another, for several seconds. I know in my heart we're both thinking the same thing. Jacob leans forward over the candle, the shadow of the flame dancing against his bottom lip. I lean forward to meet him as well. It's a kiss full of promise, of trust, and of all that is magic.

  Laurie Faria Stolarz

  Heart, Eye, Kissing

  Laurie Faria Stolarz (2011). “White is for Magic”, p.284, North Star Editions, Inc.

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• Everybody finished the song at different times. Dumbledore conducted their last few lines with his wand and when they had finished, he was one of those who clapped loudest. 'Ah music,' he said, wiping his eyes. 'A magic beyond all we do here!

  J. K. Rowling

  Song, Eye, Different

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• This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.

  Terry Pratchett

  Done, Discworld, Found

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• The only one who didn't know was George Lucas. We kept it from him, because we wanted to see what his face looked like when it changed expression--and he fooled us even then. He got Industrial Light and Magic to change his facial expressions for him and THX sound to make the noise of a face-changing expression.

  Carrie Fisher

  Light, Expression, Sound

  Carrie Fisher (2012). “Wishful Drinking”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• The sun goes down long and red. All the magic names of the valley unrolled - Manteca, Madera, all the rest. Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon field; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries. I stuck my head out the window and took deep breaths of the fragant air. It was the most beautiful of all moments.

  Jack Kerouac

  Beautiful, Air, Color

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.

  Robert Bloch

  Long Ago, People, Labels

  Robert Bloch (2010). “Psycho: A Novel”, p.88, The Overlook Press

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• Because you can't keep up the illusion forever," I say. "No one has that much magic.

  Libba Bray

  Forever, Illusion

  Libba Bray (2010). “Rebel Angels”, p.376, Simon and Schuster

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• Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.

  Cornelia Funke

  Writing, Stories, Kind

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.525, Scholastic Inc.

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• Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given to the pursuit of knowledge. They lure the weary enquirer, the footsore seeker, on through the wilderness of disappointment in the present by their endless promises of the future: they take him up to the top of an exceeding high mountain and show him, beyond the dark clouds and rolling mists at his feet, a vision of the celestial city, far off, it may be, but radiant with unearthly splendour, bathed in the light of dreams.

  James G. Frazer

  Dream, Strong, Powerful

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• Science,' said Mr Anders Anders. 'Science, not magic. I told you before: when things are not as they appear to be, it's because they're actually simpler than you think them to be. Things are never as difficult and complicated as folk believe. You'd be surprised just how straightforward and obvious things really are. The secret is in knowing how to look at them the right way.

  Robert Rankin

  Believe, Thinking, Knowing

  Robert Rankin (2011). “The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse: Eddie Bear”, p.129, Hachette UK

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• No person has ever held all the power. There must be a balance between chaos and order, dark and light. With the Temple magic bound to you, the realms are no longer in balance. The power could change you... and you could change the magic.

  Libba Bray

  Dark, Light, Order

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• Every time we fix something that broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that an act of magic. And what makes it magic is that we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm.

  Charles de Lint

  Heart, Broken, Car

  Charles de Lint (2009). “The Mystery of Grace”, p.235, Macmillan

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• Forget your pain. It was what I said when I took Father's hand in the drawing room yesterday, what I repeated again tonight. But I didn't mean this. I must be careful. Yet what bothers me isn't the power of the magic or how, to a person, they've all accepted it as truth. No, what unsettles me the most is how much I want to believe it too.

  Libba Bray

  Pain, Father, Believe

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• Learn to master yourself-to understand both your fears and your desires. That's the key to magic. Then, no one shall have any hold over you. Remember... the magic (sic)... is a living thing, joined to whomever it touches and changed by them as well... You must come to know everything-even your darkest corners. Especially those...Everything has its price.

  Libba Bray

  Keys, Over You, Desire

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• Don't you? if you keep them from the magic, they will never know what their lives could be.' They will remain protected,' Asha insists. No, 'I say. 'Only untested.

  Libba Bray

  Protected, Knows, Ifs

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.1287, Delacorte Press

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• She was chosen,' Mae insists. No, you're wrong,' I say. 'She was only a girl.'... She was gone for some time. You were the only force that kept her from turning completely. That's magic. Perhaps the most powerful I've seen.' -In response to Felicity's love for Pippa keeping her from turning into a Winterland creature.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Powerful, Gone

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• It's worth it. It's worth giving up the sun and magic.

  Richelle Mead

  Giving Up, Sun, Worth It

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• A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.

  Susanna Clarke

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• I moved my arms through the water, feeling them float on the surface, watching the waves and wake that followed my gesture. Here was magic, I thought. Here was something holy.

  Anita Diament

  Water, Feelings, Gestures

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• It is how it has always been. We will accept the legacy of our ancestors,' Asha says, smiling, and in her smile I do not see warmth or wisdom; I see fear. You're afraid of losing your hold on them,' I say coolly. I? I have no power.' Don't you? If you keep them from the magic, they will never know what their lives could be.' They will remain protected,' Asha insists. No,' I say. 'Only untested' -page 569

  Libba Bray

  Pages, Legacy, Losing

  Libba Bray (2009). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.364, Simon and Schuster

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