Magic Quotes - Page 24

• Is magic not enough to live for?

  Erin Morgenstern

  Enough

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.385, Random House

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Have a little faith in my magic fingers

  Cassandra Clare

  Littles, Fingers, Have A Little Faith

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “What Really Happened in Peru”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.

  Carl Sagan

  Book, Writing, People

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, 1990.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Al was cruel, vindictive, angry, elegant, powerful. He gave me strength, he gave me wisdom, not only about magic, but about myself. He was a lot like Trent, only harsher around the edges.

  Kim Harrison

  Powerful, Als, Vindictive

  4 Copy quote

• Because love is the meeting point of truth and magic. Truth, as in photography; magic, as in ballooning.

  Julian Barnes

  Photography, Love Is, Levels Of Life

  11 Copy quote

• Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in all the places.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Flower, Garden, Squirrels

  Dodie Smith, Frances Hodgson Burnett (2012). “Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Your Daughter: I Capture the Castle & The Secret Garden”, p.419, Random House

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's a flame of magic inside every stone & every flower, every bird that sings & every frog that croaks. There's magic in the trees & the hills & the river & the rocks, in the sea & the stars & the wind, a deep, wild magic that's as old as the world itself. It's in you too, my darling girl, and in me, and in every living creature, be it ever so small. Even the dirt I'm sweeping up now is stardust. In fact, all of us are made from the stuff of stars.

  Kate Forsyth

  Girl, Stars, Flower

  14 Copy quote

• If they were real, then maybe the world was big enough to have magic in it. And if there was magic — even bad magic, and Zach knew it was more likely that there was bad magic than any good kind — then maybe not everyone had to have a story like his father's, a story like the kind all the adults he knew told, one about giving up and growing bitter.

  Holly Black

  Giving Up, Real, Father

  Holly Black (2013). “Doll Bones”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Because it's magic, this place . . . beautiful. And you're beautiful . . . beautifully separate. It all fits.

  Lucy Christopher

  Beautiful, You Re Beautiful, Fit

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.28, Scholastic Inc.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Magic In The World, People, Secret Garden

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

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Magic is in her just as it is in Dickon," said Colin. "It makes her think of ways to do things - nice things.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Nice, Thinking, Way

  Frances Hodgson Burnett, General Press (2016). “The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)”, p.158, GENERAL PRESS

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Magic or nature, they were much the same thing to Magnus.

  Cassandra Clare

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “The Midnight Heir”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The whole sphere of air that surrounds us, Alma, is alive with invisible attractions — electric, magnetic, fiery and thoughtful. There is a universal sympathy all around us… When we cease all argument and debate — both internal and external — our true questions can be heard and answered…That is the gathering of magic.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thoughtful, Air, Alive

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.242, A&C Black

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What can I say?" I grinned. I have a magic touch when it comes to animals." Daphne snorted. "You're touched in the head is more like it.

  Jennifer Estep

  Animal, Touched

  4 Copy quote

• A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all...much of the magic of the heather beds would vanish if, as we bent over them, there was no chance that we might hear a faint rustle among the blossoms, and find ourselves staring into a pair of sleepy green eyes.

  Beverley Nichols

  Eye, Cat, Garden

  13 Copy quote

• And if you decide not to read anymore, hey, no problem, because you're not the one I was waiting for anyway. But if you decide to read on, then guess what? You're my kind of time being and together we'll make magic!

  Ruth Ozeki

  Waiting, Together, Hey

  4 Copy quote

• His eyes were frighteningly alive, the curve of his mouth savage and pleased. It suddenly didn't seem at all surprising that he should be able to pull things from his dreams. In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her raven boys.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Love, Dream, Eye

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.15, Scholastic Inc.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I could never accept life as it was, I could never gobble down all its poisons bu there were parts, tenuous magic parts open for the asking.

  Charles Bukowski

  Poison, Asking, Accepting

  Charles Bukowski, “Let It Enfold You”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There was a mood of magic and frenzy to the room. Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails. And then there was the smell-the smell of hope, the kind of smell that brought people home.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Home, Air, Smell

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.37, Bantam

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Butterflies were small and light, and very magic sensitive. For some reason I made them feel safe and they gravitated to me like iron shavings to a magnet. They ruined my ferocious badass image, but you'd have to be a complete beast to swat butterflies.

  Ilona Andrews

  Badass, Butterfly, Light

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Dreams: A Penguin Special from Ace”, p.35, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The only thing was, she didn't really want to see the future. What she wanted was to see something no one else could see or would see, and maybe that was asking for more magic that was in the world.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Asking, World, Want

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.66, Scholastic Inc.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost all friendships would be dissolved; the second effect, however, might be excellent, for a world without any friends would be felt to be intolerable, and we should learn to like each other without needing a veil of illusion to conceal from ourselves that we did not think each other absolutely perfect.

  Bertrand Russell

  Friendship, Thinking, Perfect

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.65, Lulu Press, Inc

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Magic naturally fades over distance. But proximity - well, when it works, proximity amplifies magic.

  David Levithan

  Distance, Amplify, Proximity

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.29, Egmont UK

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her raven boys.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Boys, Ravens, Blue

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.336, Scholastic Inc.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• She didn't have words for what Levi was. He was a cave painting. He was The Red Ballon. She lifted her heels and pulled him forward until his face was so close, she could look at only one of his eyes at a time. "You're magic," she said.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Eye, Caves, Cave Paintings

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.666, St. Martin's Griffin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source