Magic Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• Weeks passed, and the little Rabbit grew very old and shabby, but the Boy loved him just as much. He loved him so hard that he loved all his whiskers off, and the pink lining to his ears turned grey, and his brown spots faded. He even began to lose his shape, and he scarcely looked like a rabbit any more, except to the Boy. To him he was always beautiful, and that was all that the little Rabbit cared about. He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.

  Margery Williams

  Beautiful, Real, Boys

  Margery Williams, Margery Williams Bianco, William Nicholson (2011). “The Velveteen Rabbit”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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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• Is she for real?” He paused and reconsidered. “Are you for real? Spells? Magic? I mean, don’t get me wrong. I drink blood and control people’s minds. But I’ve never heard of anything like this.

  Richelle Mead

  Real, Mean, Blood

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Bloodlines: The Golden Lily”, p.246, Penguin UK

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• Dispel, v. It was the way you said, “I have something to tell you.” I could feel the magic drain from the room.

  David Levithan

  Way, Rooms, Drains

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.72, Macmillan

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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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• The world is simple, I think, in its essence. Life, death, love, hate. Desire, fulfillment. Magic.

  Juliet Marillier

  Hate, Simple, Thinking

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Son of the Shadows: Book Two of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.551, Macmillan

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• Magic is always impossible.... It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it's magic.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Impossible, Ends

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• Whatever life may be, and whatever horror men have made of it, the world is a lovely place, a magic place, something to marvel over. The world is an amazing place.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Lovely, World

  D. H. Lawrence, John Worthen (1981). “The Lost Girl”, p.299, Cambridge University Press

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• Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

  Oscar Wilde

  Vivid, Subtle, Terrible

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.22, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• All power is the same. Magic. Physical strength. Economic strength. Political strength. It all serves a single purpose-it gives its possessor a broader spectrum of choices. It creates alternative courses of action.

  Jim Butcher

  Giving, Choices, Political

  Jim Butcher (2007). “Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files”, p.258, Penguin

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• A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.…We know that the world is not all sleight of hand and deception because we are in it, we are part of it. Actually we are the white rabbit being pulled out of the hat. The only difference beween us and the white rabbit is that the rabbit does not realize it is taking part in a magic trick.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Hands, White, Differences

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• A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words, that he could never say the magic phrase which would open her being.

  Anais Nin

  Men, Ordinary, Phrases

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