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• Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions. He could add and subtract faster than lightning, but he preferred his own twilight world, a world where babies slept, waiting to be gathered like morning lilies.

  Harper Lee

  Beautiful, Baby, Morning

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.

  Susanna Clarke

  Lying, Magician, Knows

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.234, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I think fantasy is best described as a kind of fiction that evokes wonder, mystery or magic, a sense of possibility beyond the ordinary world in which we live, and yet which reflects and comments upon that known world.

  Kate Forsyth

  Thinking, Ordinary World, Fiction

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• Zia turned toward us, her expression grim. “I will show you to your quarters. In the morning, your testing begins. We will see what magic you know, and how you know it.” I wasn’t sure what she meant by that, but I exchanged an uneasy look with Sadie. “Sounds fun,” Sadie ventured. “And it we fail this test?” Zia regarded her coldly. “This is not the sort of test you fail, Sadie Kane. You pass or you die.

  Rick Riordan

  Morning, Fun, Expression

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• Egypt is the First Nome. New York is the twenty-first. What’s the last one, the Three-hundred-and-sixtieth?” “That would be Antarctica,” Zia said. “A punishment assignment. Nothing there but a couple of cold magicians and some magic penguins.” “Magic penguins?” “Don’t ask.

  Rick Riordan

  New York, Couple, Egypt

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• I held out my dad’s magic box and let it o, sure it would smash to the floor. Instead, the box disappeared. “Cool,” I said. “Sure you I can get it back?” “No,” Bast said. “Now come on!

  Rick Riordan

  Dad, Boxes, Said

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• I must admit I’m impressed, Sadie. You controlled your magic and controlled Isis. And you, Carter, did well turning into a lizard.

  Rick Riordan

  Isis, Lizards, Sadie

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• A long white ribbon shot out of the crack in the wall. The ribbon just kept coming, weaving itself into some kind of shape next to Anubis, and my first thought was, My god, he’s got a magic roll of toilet paper.

  Rick Riordan

  Wall, White, Long

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid”, p.284, Penguin UK

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• If anybody felt worse than I did, it was Amos. I had just enough magic to turn myself into a falcon and him into a hamster (hey, I was rushed!)

  Rick Riordan

  Hey, Enough, Hamsters

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• I’m exactly right for you, Bella. It would have been effortless for us — comfortable, easy as breathing. I was the natural path your life would have taken… If the world was the way it was supposed to be, if there were no monsters and no magic

  Stephenie Meyer

  Taken, Breathing, World

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Missing, Together

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• That summer we had been absolutely alone, together, even when people were around, the only inhabitants of the kind of floating island or magic carpet which being in love is.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Summer, Being In Love, Love Is

  Robert Penn Warren (2002). “All the King's Men”, p.563, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I had to persuade a dog to swallow a pill. I twittered for advice and I got suggestion after suggestion. Most of them didn't work. 'Put the pill in the sausage.' No - that doesn't work. 'Cheese.' No. Then someone said: 'You wrap it in butter and it will slide down.' I tried it and it worked! And I'd learnt how to give a pill to a dog through the magic of Twitter.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dog, Giving, Advice

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• Orion brightened. "I have an idea." "Yes?" said Foaly, daring to hope that a spark of Artemis remained. "Why don't we look for some magic stones that can grant wishes? Or, if that doesn't work, you could search my naked body for some mysterious birthmark that means I am actually the prince of somewhere or other.

  Eoin Colfer

  Mean, Ideas, Wish

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• I could have.What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have heppened but, didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mean, Destiny, Hands

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• They have an unusual relationship. And when things are good, it's magic.

  Lisa McMann

  Unusual

  Lisa McMann (2010). “Fade”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.

  Stephen King

  Numbers, Way, Seven

  Stephen King (2007). “It: Film tie-in edition of Stephen King’s IT”, p.827, Hachette UK

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• Uh... ," Ivy stammered, and I glanced up to see her eyes wide in consideration. "I'm kidding," I said. "It passed the lethal-amulet test, remember?" "Not that. You keep it in your underwear drawer?" I hesitated, wondering why I was embarrassed. "Well, where do you put your elven magic?" I asked.

  Kim Harrison

  Eye, Ivy, Underwear

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• The darkness is calling. A little danger, a little risk. Feel your heart race. Listen to it. That’s the sound of being alive. It’s your time, Nick. Your one chance to have fun before it’s all stolen by them, the adults, with their cruelty and endless rules, their can’t-do-this, and can’t-do-that’s, their have-tos, and better-dos, their little boxes and cages all designed to break your spirit, to kill your magic.

  Brom

  Fun, Heart, Race

  Brom (2009). “The Child Thief: A Novel”, p.43, Harper Collins

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• Most people are blind to magic. They move thru a blank and empty world. They’re bored with their lives and there’s nothing they can do about it. They’re eaten alive by longing and they’re dead before they die.

  Lev Grossman

  Moving, People, Bored

  Lev Grossman (2009). “The Magicians: A Novel”, p.88, Penguin

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• She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel; she has inside her a magic space the entrance to which is shut tight with a plug of membrane; she is a closed system; she does not know how to shiver.

  Angela Carter

  Moving, Eggs, Space

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• My sister had taught me to look at the world that way, as a place that glitters, as a place where the calls of the crickets and the crows and the wind are everyday occurrences that also happen to be magic.

  Cynthia Kadohata

  Life, Wind, Everyday

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• I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Never mind the Protestant work ethic of the dwarfs. Never mind the tedious housework-is-virtuous motif. Never mind the fact that Snow White is a vampire -- anyone who lies in a glass coffin without decaying and then comes to life again must be. The truth is that I was paralysed by the scene in which the evil queen drinks the magic potion and changes her shape. What power, what untold possibilities!

  Margaret Atwood

  Queens, Lying, Taken

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “Curious Pursuits: Occasional Writing”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• I know I hated magic for a reason," Janco said. "Congratulations. This is the first time you've had a VALID reason to hate something," Ari countered. "Remember your campaign against sand?" "Sand! Horrid little stuff. Gets everywhere. I had a perfectly good argue--" "Janco." Ari's voice rumbled deep in his throat. In a heartbeat, Janco switched gears. "Well, this blood magic sounds worse than sand.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Hate, Congratulations, Perfectly Good

  Maria V. Snyder (2013). “Storm Glass”, p.422, MIRA

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• Stairs," Valkyrie said, disappointed. "Not just ordinary stairs," Skulduggery told her as he led the way down. "Magic stairs." "Really?" "Oh, yes." She followed him into the darkness. "How are they magic?" "They just are." "In what way?" "In a magicky way." She glared at the back of his head. "They aren't magic at all, are they?" "Not really.

  Derek Landy

  Darkness, Ordinary, Way

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