Magic Quotes - Page 12

• That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it your own.

  Janette Rallison

  Book, Two, People

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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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• 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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• In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I was able to get was night watchman on a sewer project in Babylon, N.Y. guarding a hole in the ground to prevent anyone from stealing it. God bless the American educational system!

  Spider Robinson

  Jobs, Educational, Night

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• The theater troubled her. It had a magic of its own, one that didn’t belong to her, one that wasn’t in her control. It changed the world, and said things were otherwise than they were. And it was worse than that. It was magic that didn’t belong to magical people. It was commanded by ordinary people, who didn’t know the rules. They altered the world because it sounded better.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Ordinary, World

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wyrd Sisters: (Discworld Novel 6)”, p.304, Random House

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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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• She put her hand on her chest. “I have magic yet. If you will set the clock working again, then I must be still. I have read quite as many stories as you, September. More, no doubt. And I know a secret you do not: I am not the villain. I am no dark lord. I am the princess in this tale. I am the maiden, with her kingdom stolen away. And how may a princess remain safe and protected through centuries, no matter who may assail her? She sleeps. For a hundred years, for a thousand. Until her enemies have all perished and the sun rises over her perfect, innocent face once more.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Princess, Sleep, Dark

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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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• No magic. I do believe you might have taken it all with you when you went away.

  Henry Rollins

  Believe, Taken, Might

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• One day a wolf bit a man and the man caught it. Magic or science, it's all the same. The only thing magical about it is that we can't explain it." ~Sam

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Men, One Day, Caught

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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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• Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Positive, Nice, Thinking

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “The Secret Garden”, p.165, Xist Publishing

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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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• Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. "Did you like it?" His dad asked. "Yup," Colin said. He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

  John Green

  Dad, Book, Reading

  John Green (2006). “An Abundance of Katherines”, Dutton Childrens Books

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• Throwing down your staff may sound like a sign of surrender, but in Egyptian magic, it's bad news. It usually means, 'Hey, I'm going to summon a big nasty thing to kill you while I stand safely inside my circle and laugh'.

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Circles, Laughing

  Rick Riordan (2011). “The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles Book 2): The Throne of Fire”, p.131, Penguin UK

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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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• And we are magic talking to itself, noisy and alone. I am queen of all my sins forgotten. Am I still lost? Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself

  Anne Sexton

  Beautiful, Queens, Talking

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. They seek each other out, these people of such specific like mind. They tell of how they found the circus, how those first few steps were like magic. Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars… When they depart, they shake hands and embrace like old friends, even if they have only just met, and as they go their separate ways they feel less alone than they had before.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Stars, Hands, People

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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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• There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Way

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• Nothing out of the ordinary ever occurs to me when I'm by myself. But you attract duels, ambushes, immortal enemies, obscure creatures such as the Ra'zac, long-lost family members, and mysterious acts of magic as if they were were starving weasels and you were a rabbit that wandered into their den.

  Christopher Paolini

  Long, Enemy, Ordinary

  "Brisingr: Book Three". Book by Christopher Paolini, September 20, 2008.

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• She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims.

  Arundhati Roy

  Flower, Eye, Hair

  FaceBook post by Arundhati Roy from Feb 17, 2017

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• There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.

  Jim Butcher

  Dresden Files

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