Magic Quotes - Page 17

• A book had always been a door to another world... a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy. And that love could fill the real world with magic.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Real, Book, Doors

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• Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to make wonderful worlds better than this one, comforters, companions in loneliness. Keepers of secrets, speakers of the truth...all those glorious words.

  Cornelia Funke

  Block, Loneliness, Voice

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• The trouble is, the other side can do magic too, Prime Minister.

  J. K. Rowling

  Sides, Trouble, Prime

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, p.22, Pottermore

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• I can kill with a single word. I can hurl a ball of fire into the midst of my enemies. I rule a squadron of skeletal warriors, who can destroy by touch alone. I can raise a wall of ice to protect those I serve. The invisible is discernible to my eyes. Ordinary magic spells crumble in my presence... But I bow in the presence of a master. -- Lord Soth to Raistlin Majere

  Margaret Weis

  Wall, Eye, Warrior

  Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (2011). “Time of the Twins: Legends, Volume One”, p.116, Wizards of the Coast

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• I put the ick in magic.

  Jim Butcher

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.15, Penguin

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• Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic lines are taught, / How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT?

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Eye, Lines

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in math. The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a problem into another form. Depending on the nature and the direction of the problem, a solution might be suggested in the narrative. Tengo would return to the real world with that solution in hand. It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell. It served no immediate practical purpose, but it contained a possibility.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Cutting, Math

  "Town of Cats" by Haruki Murakami, www.newyorker.com. September 5, 2011.

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• She had been innocent once, a little girl playing with feathers on the floor of a devil's lair. She wasn't innocent now, but she didn't know what to do about it. This was her life: magic and shame and secrets and teeth and a deep, nagging hollow at the center of herself where something was most certainly missing.

  Laini Taylor

  Girl, Missing, Secret

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• 1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. 2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. 3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Past, Technology, Impossible Things

  Profiles of the Future ch. 2 (1962).

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• There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.

  Gene Wolfe

  Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.404, Macmillan

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• This looks like a job for inadvisably applied magic if ever I saw one.

  Terry Pratchett

  Jobs, Looks, Saws

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Making Money: (Discworld Novel 36)”, p.464, Random House

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• And his knowledge remained woefully incomplete, Harry! That which Voldemort does not value, he takes no trouble to comprehend. Of house-elves and children's tales, of love, loyalty, and innocence, Voldemort knows and understands nothing. Nothing. That they all have a power beyond his own, a power beyond the reach of any magic, is a truth he has never grasped.

  J. K. Rowling

  Loyalty, Children, House

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• Tell me what it's like. The race." "What it's like is a battle. A mess of horses and men and blood. The fastest and strongest of what is left from two weeks of preparation on the sand. It's the surf in your face, the deadly magic of November on your skin, the Scorpio drums in the place of your heartbeat. It's speed, if you're lucky. It's life and it's death or it's both, and there's nothing like it.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Horse, Men, Race

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.333, Scholastic UK

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• Look at the sky. It’s not dark and black and without character. The black is, in fact deep blue. And over there: lighter blue and blowing through the blues and blackness the winds swirling through the air and then shining, burning, bursting through: the stars! And you see how they roar their light. Everywhere we look, the complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.

  Richard Curtis

  Stars, Character, Eye

  "Fictional character: Vincent Van Gogh". TV Series "Doctor Who" ("Vincent and the Doctor", 2010), www.imdb.com. (2005 - ).

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• So easy to take it for granted, but this is something no normal human was made to see. The world of magic has blessed me with wonders and it's only right to stop every now and then to appreciate it.

  Darren Shan

  Blessed, Appreciate, World

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• My tears are like the quiet drift of petals from some magic rose; and all my grief flows from the rift of unremembered skies and snows. I think that if I touched the earth, it would crumble; it is so sad and beautiful, so tremulously like a dream.

  Dylan Thomas

  Beautiful, Dream, Grief

  Dylan Thomas, “Clown In The Moon”

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• Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely a matter of chance in any case had left it bulging in places where it shouldn't have places. There were rooms containing rooms which, if you entered them, turned out to contain the room you'd started with, which can be a problem if you are in a conga line.

  Terry Pratchett

  Years, Unseen, World

  "The Last Continent: A Discworld Novel".

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• I wanted to keep things as normal as possible for the trainees, so I led my usual morning class. I called it Magic Problem-Solving 101. The trainees called it Whatever Works.

  Rick Riordan

  Morning, Class, Usual

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• So for Magic Problem-Solving 101, we headed to the training room and blew stuff up.

  Rick Riordan

  Training, Stuff, Rooms

  Rick Riordan (2011). “The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles Book 2): The Throne of Fire”, p.63, Penguin UK

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• I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better.

  Chris Bohjalian

  Certainty, I Can

  FaceBook post by Chris Bohjalian from Oct 08, 2015

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• Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. It was deeper and more intimate that the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw. Okonkwo’s fear was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself.

  Chinua Achebe

  Heart, Men, Okonkwo

  Chinua Achebe (1996). “Things Fall Apart”, p.9, Heinemann

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• Anyway, my office is small - one room, but on the corner, with a couple of windows. The sign on the door reads, simply, HARRY DRESDEN, WIZARD. Just inside the door is a table, covered with pamphlets with titles like: Magic and You, and Why Witches Don't Sink Any Faster Than Anyone Else - a Wizard's Perspective. I wrote most of them. I think it's important for we practitioners of the Art to keep up a good public image. Anything to avoid another Inquisition.

  Jim Butcher

  Art, Couple, Thinking

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.19, Penguin

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• I wanted to know how humans came up with a view of the world that had so little magic in it. I needed to understand how they convinced themselves that magic wasn’t important.

  Deborah Harkness

  Views, Important, World

  Deborah Harkness (2011). “A Discovery of Witches: A Novel”, p.71, Penguin

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• Magic is the cheat codes for the world.

  Warren Ellis

  World, Cheat, Code

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• Perhaps only those who had loved and lost could appreciate this magic.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Appreciate, Lost, Loved And Lost

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