Magic Quotes - Page 15

• Our strength comes from that magic, from the earth and the sky, from the fire and the water. Fly high, swim deep, give back to the earth what she gives you.

  Juliet Marillier

  Fire, Sky, Giving

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.24, Macmillan

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• Is he all scarred now? Magic gets rid of most physical scars, but I like to think I scarred him emotionally.

  Derek Landy

  Thinking, Scar

  Derek Landy (2009). “Playing With Fire (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 2)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.

  Robin Hobb

  Thinking, World, Draws

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Fool's Errand: The Tawny Man Trilogy”, p.177, Spectra

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• My body Healed quickly. But the wound to my psyche was deep. Wide. First aid, too little, too late, left me hemorrhaging inside, the blood unstaunched by psychological bandage or love's healing magic. Eventually it scabbed over, a thick, ugly welt of memory. I work to conceal it, but no matter how hard I try, once in a while something makes me pick at it until the scarring bleeds. In my arms, Ashante cries, innocence ripped apart by circumstance. Bloodied by inhuman will. Time will prove a tourniquet. But she will always be at risk of infection. (124)

  Ellen Hopkins

  Memories, Healing, Blood

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Fallout”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• Where did this come from? Do you know what this is? Luca is going to sneak out of bed in the middle of the night and squirt it on his tongue. It's like drugs for ten-year-olds. Today it's Ice Magic. Tomorrow, heroin.

  Melina Marchetta

  Night, Years, Ice

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.86, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I have sinned enough against the world. Teaching magic to a kender would ensure my damnation. —Raistlin Majere

  Margaret Weis

  Teaching, Damnation, World

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• Nature Boy There was a boy A very strange enchanted boy They say he wandered very far, very far Over land and sea A little shy And sad of eye But very wise Was he And then one day A magic day he passed my way And while we spoke of many things, fools and kings This he said to me “The greatest thing You’ll ever learn Is just to love And be loved In return

  David Bowie

  Wise, Kings, Eye

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• The truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger.

  Esther M. Friesner

  Sometimes, Danger

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• The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires true authority in the use of the comic, an authority which by one word transforms as by magic the reasonable creature one calls man into a caricature.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Believe, Men, Suffering

  "Stages on Life's Way". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, 1845.

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• Out last chance is a cat's magic sight. We are doomed.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Cat, Sight, Lasts

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• I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!" yelled Uncle Vernon. Hagrid seized his pink umbrella and whirled it over his head "NEVER -" he thundered "- INSULT -ALBUS -DUMBLEDORE - IN - FRONT - OF - ME!

  J. K. Rowling

  Uncles, Fool, Insult

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• Magic is dangerous- but love is more dangerous still

  Cassandra Clare

  Love Is, Dangerous, Stills

  Shannon Messenger, Suzanne Young, Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer, Lauren Barnholdt (2013). “Get a Taste of Pulseit!: Free Pulseit eSampler”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't want realism. I want magic!

  Tennessee Williams

  Desire, Want, Realism

  A Streetcar Named Desire sc. 9 (1947)

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• I don't believe in magic.

  J. K. Rowling

  Believe, Don't Believe

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• I love you,” Bill said helplessly, as if he wished those magic words would heal me. But he knew they wouldn’t. “That’s what you all keep saying,” I answered. “But it doesn’t seem to get me any happier.

  Charlaine Harris

  Love You, Bills, Said

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• Matthew kept hinting that his desire - for blood, chiefly- was so strong that it put everything else at risk. But vampires weren’t the only creatures who had to manage such strong impulses. Much of what qualified as magic was simply desire in action. Witchcraft was different- that took spells and rituals. But magic? A wish, a need, a hunger too strong to be denied- these could turn into deeds when they cross a witch’s mind.

  Deborah Harkness

  Strong, Blood, Risk

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• I wanted to write you a story about magic. I wanted rabbits appearing from hats. I wanted balloons lifting you into the sky. It turned out to be nothing but sadness, war, heartbreak. You never saw it, but there’s a garden inside me.

  Shane Jones

  War, Sadness, Writing

  Shane Jones (2010). “Light Boxes: A Novel”, p.54, Penguin

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• Men-kind shared this world for but a blink, then, sadly, they became enlightened, found science and religion. The new world of men left little room for magic or the magical creatures of old. Earth’s first children were driven into the shadows by flame and cold iron, by man’s insatiable need of conquest.

  Brom

  Children, Men, Insatiable Need

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• I looked across the river to Manhattan. It was a great view. When Sadie and I had first arrived at Brooklyn House, Amos had told us that magicians tried to stay out of Manhattan. He said Manhattan had other problems--whatever that meant. And sometimes when I looked across the water, I could swear I was seeing things. Sadie laughed about it, but once I thought I saw a flying horse. Probably just the mansion's magic barriers causing optical illusions, but still, it was weird.

  Rick Riordan

  Horse, Views, Rivers

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• I myself shall continue living in my glass house where you can always see who comes to call, where everything hanging from the the ceiling and on the walls stays where it is as if by magic, where I sleep nights in a glass bed, under glass sheets, where who I am will sooner or later appear etched by a diamond.

  Andre Breton

  Wall, Sleep, Night

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• And there you have it...if I knew that I could only have a few nights in that man's arms or nothing, I would take those magic nights and use them to keep me warm for the rest of my life.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Night, Men, Use

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• Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live (p. 64)

  Robert Frost

  Boys, Men, Imagination

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• You asked me if I believed in magic, and I said yes, and that's how. You just step out, start pulling your life out of the air. You make friends, you find work you really like doing, you find places. You find diners and Laundromats. You find beaches. You find a junk car and drive it for a month, then lave it beside the road. You find someone to fall in love with you. You make it all up as you go. Or, you know, maybe it makes you up.

  Brad Barkley

  Beach, Falling In Love, Love You

  Brad Barkley, Heather Hepler (2007). “Dream Factory”, p.66, Penguin

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• We tend to hold that popping medicine in our mouths and swallowing is the extent of our involvement in the healing process. We believe that if we get better, it's because the medicine worked magic, not the person.

  Inga Muscio

  Believe, Healing, Medicine

  Inga Muscio (2002). “Cunt: A Declaration of Independence”, p.50, Seal Press

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• Unfortunately, the Best Lord had condemned both vehicles as unsafe and instead I now leased a Pack Jeep I called Hector. Equipped with dual engines, Hector worked during magic or tech. He didn't go very fast, especially during magic, but so far he hadn't stalled on me either. As long as our high-speed chases stayed under forty-five miles an hour, we would be all set.

  Ilona Andrews

  Long, Jeeps, Would Be

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