Magic Quotes - Page 12

• ...there was another, gorier parturition, when two nations incarnated out of one. A foreigner drew a magic line on a map and called it the new border; it became a river of blood upon the earth. And the orchards, fields, factories, businesses, all on the wrong side of that line, vanished with a wave of the pale conjuror's wand.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Two Nations, Blood, Rivers

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.289, Vintage

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• Gee, You're so Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain Oh, Marcia, I want your long blonde beauty to be taught in high school, so kids will learn that God lives like music in the skin and sounds like a sunshine harpsicord. I want high school report cards to look like this: Playing with Gentle Glass Things A Computer Magic A Writing Letters to Those You Love A Finding out about Fish A Marcia's Long Blonde Beauty A+!

  Richard Brautigan

  Beautiful, Rain, Writing

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.244, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She wrote, 'Dandelion, I love you.' And I thought that was magic. It's not in you, it's between you. It's bigger and stronger than you are

  Melvin Burgess

  Love You, Stronger, Dandelions

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• Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.

  Gerald Durrell

  Islands, Pollen, Greece

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• I have one final hope, If I get double sixes, maybe he will change his mind, come back to me. As if to cast a magic spell, I blow on the dice just as Dex did...Just as it happened with our first roll, one die lands before its mate. On a six! I hold my breath. For a brief second, I see a mess of dots, and think I have boxcars again. I kneel, staring at the second die. It is onle a five. I have rolled an eleven, It is as if someone is mocking me, saying, Close, but no dice.

  Emily Giffin

  Blow, Thinking, Land

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• By the way, my name's Rose Hathaway. I'm seventeen years old, training to protect and kill vampires, in love with a completely unsuitable guy, and have a best friend whose weird magic could drive her crazy. Hey, no one said high school was easy.

  Richelle Mead

  Crazy, School, Years

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.188, Penguin

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• Her parents wanted her to find her own way in life. That’s what they’d said countless times in the past. Of course, they’d been referring to school subjects and college applications and job prospects. Presumably, at no stage did they factor living skeletons and magic underworlds into their considerations. If they had, their advice would probably have been very different.

  Derek Landy

  Jobs, School, Past

  Derek Landy (2015). “Skulduggery Pleasant -”, p.45, HarperCollins UK

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• He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.

  Salman Rushdie

  Real, World, Being Real

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Haroun and the Sea of Stories”, Penguin Books

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• What you describe is how it happens to everyone: magic does slide through you, and disappear, and come back later looking like something else. And I'm sorry to tell you this, but where your magic lives will always be a great dark space with scraps you fumble for. You must learn to sniff them out in the dark.

  Robin McKinley

  Sorry, Dark, Space

  Robin Mckinley (2002). “Spindle's End”, p.68, Penguin

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• Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means. Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone.

  Tom Robbins

  Mean, Blue, Divinity

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• To each his own magic.

  Libba Bray

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.404, Simon and Schuster

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• Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos -- art, not politics, is the remedy.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Mean, Soul

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• Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Sweet, Cheerful, Faces

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 1”, p.146, Reprint Services Corporation

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• So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.

  Gregory Maguire

  Stories, Erode, Way

  Gregory Maguire (2010). “What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy”, p.115, Candlewick Press

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• Now I can do the bolts," she slurred. "I've been trying to focus enough magic all week." The magic shifted and swirled, finally etching a picture in the air. It was a rough picture of Foaly, and he was laughing. I hate you, centaur!" screamed Opal, lunging toward, and then through, the insubstantial image. Her eyes rolled back into her head, and then she collapsed, snoring, on the floor. Artemis straightened his tie. Freud, he was certain, would have a field day with that.

  Eoin Colfer

  Hate, Eye, Ties

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• Death, jewelry, or magic; it sounded like Valentine's Day.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Valentine, Jewelry, Anita Blake

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10”, p.1408, Penguin

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• I had the same sensation as when we watch someone sleep. When asleep we all become children again. Perhaps because in the state of slumber we can do no wrong and are unconscious of life, the greatest criminal and most self- absorbed egotist are holy, by a natural magic, as long as they're sleeping. For me there's no discernible difference between killing a child and killing a sleeping man.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Children, Sleep, Men

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• The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Men, Garden, Made

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2003). “The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition”, p.143, Penguin

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• Getting cut off from the knights' magic rock also required a period of exile from their giant glass mushroom. (Those of you in the Hushlands, I dare you to work that last sentence into a conversation. "By the way, Sally, did you know that getting cut from the knight's magic rock also requires a period of exile from their giant glass mushroom?")

  Brandon Sanderson

  Cutting, Rocks, Mushrooms

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “The Knights of Crystallia: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.127, Macmillan

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• Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions. If one has a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite.

  Ezra Pound

  Squares, Giving, Mind

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• I didn't want to believe that killing was deep inside of me. I didn't want to think about the part of me that took a dark joy in gathering all the power it could and using it as I saw fit, everything else be damned. There was power to be had in hatred, too, in anger and in lust, in selfishness and in pride. And I knew that there was some dark corner of me that would enjoy using magic for killing—and then long for more. That was black magic, and it was easy to use. Easy and fun. Like Legos.

  Jim Butcher

  Fun, Believe, Pride

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.438, Penguin

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• Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things. And when two people are together, in that intimacy, when they really, selflessly love each other it changes them both. It lingers on in the energy of their lives, even when they are apart.

  Jim Butcher

  Love, Two, People

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.136, Penguin

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• I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt.

  Richard Linklater

  Believe, Space, Magic In The World

  "Before Sunrise". www.imdb.com. January 24, 1995.

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• One's attitude toward life makes every possible difference in one's living. You know, you don't have to study a thousand ancient books to discover that fact. But sometimes it needs to be pointed out again that life doesn't change so much as you. ... The day when you stop building your own environment, when you stop building your own surroundings, when you stop waving a magic hand and gracing everything around you with magic and beauty, things cease to be magical, things cease to be beautiful. Well, maybe you've just neglected somewhere back in the last few years to wave that magic hand.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Beautiful, Attitude, Book

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• I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Paper, Perfume, Bookshops

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