Magic Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• 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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• There's a lot of magic between you too, ain't no denying that. And magic makes forgettin' hard.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Hard

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• That's the beginning of magic. Let your imagination run and follow it.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Running, Imagination

  Patricia A. McKillip (2005). “Alphabet Of Thorn”, p.159, Penguin

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• ...magic was ugly—-a hard bargain with the universe, a calculus of pain.

  Laini Taylor

  Pain, Ugly, Calculus

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• I wanted a do over. A time machine. That magic wand. But real life didn't have any easy outs, and very few happily-ever-afters. The real world was more like a Choose Your Own Adventure book, with most of the choices ripped out before you even opened the cover.

  Rachel Vincent

  Real, Book, Adventure

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• What were you chanting when you gave me your blood?” “More of my vampire magic. I cast a healing spell to aid the powers of my blood.” She sniffled, her nose stuffy. “It was better than Vicodin.” “Vicodin?” “A painkiller from my world.” “A killer of pain. Did you love him?” The words were growled.A burst of unexpected humor gave her strength. “No. In fact, he was hard to shake. He, uh, stalked me, that kind of thing. I had to pretend he didn’t exist.” Nicolai kissed her temple and relaxed against her.

  Gena Showalter

  Pain, Healing, Blood

  Gena Showalter (2016). “Royal House of Shadows: Part 2 of 12”, p.39, Harlequin

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• In moments Akiva was up in the ether, scarcely feeling the sting of ice crystals in the thin air. He let his glamour fall away, and his wings were like sheets of fire sweeping the black of the heavens. He moved at speed, onward toward another human city to find another doorway bitter with the devil's magic, and after that another, until all bore the black handprint....Once all the doors were marked, the end would begin. And it would begin with fire.

  Laini Taylor

  Fall, Cities, Wings

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.43, Hachette UK

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• And I think of nothing. I think of nothing but Rachel. What happens next is pure magic, and is for us and us alone.

  Barry Lyga

  Thinking, Next, Happens

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• We took a right at the fork, heading farther north. The charred houses continued. To the right, a large sign nailed to an old telephone post shouted DANGER in huge red letters. Underneath in crisp black letters was written: IM-1: Infectious Magic Area Do Not Enter Authorized Personnel Only A second smaller sign under the first one, written on a piece of plastic with permanent marker, read: Keep out, stupid. “We aren’t going to keep out, are we?” Ascanio asked. “No.” “Awesome.

  Ilona Andrews

  Stupid, House, Black

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels”, p.58, Penguin

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• The alchemist was dazed and dumbfounded, as the true meaning of the magic was revealed: *The dead will rise from glade to glen and ancient will be young again*. The dead had, after all, risen. From dead and dry things there was growth, and new life everywhere. And the endlessly long winter had at last turned to spring. From life to death and back again to life. It was indeed the greatest magic in the world.

  Lauren Oliver

  Spring, Healing, Winter

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• You put a spell on the dog," I said as we left the house. "Just a small one," said Nightingale. "So magic is real," I said. "Which makes you a...what?" "A wizard." "Like Harry Potter?" Nightingale sighed. "No," he said. "Not like Harry Potter." "In what way?" "I'm not a fictional character," said Nightingale.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Dog, Real, Character

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• It was the Magic Hour, the moment in time when every leaf and blade of grass seemed to separate, when sunlight, burnished by the rain and softened by the coming night, gave the world an impossibly beautiful glow.

  Kristin Hannah

  Beautiful, Rain, Night

  Kristin Hannah (2006). “Magic Hour: A Novel”, p.26, Ballantine Books

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• I find I think of myself not as a writer so much as someone who provides a gateway, a tangential route for readers to reach the circus. To visit the circus again, if only in their minds, when they are unable to attend it physically. I relay it through printed words on crumpled newsprint, words that they can read again and again, returning to the circus whenever they wish, regardless of time of day or physical location. Transporting them at will. When put that way, it sounds rather like magic, doesn't it? p.369

  Erin Morgenstern

  Thinking, Printed Word, Mind

  "The Night Circus". Book by Erin Morgenstern, October 6, 2016.

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• Love isn't always magic. But if I offered my body to the magician, if I told him to cut me in half so after that I could come to you whole and ask for you back would you listen for this dark alley love song? For the winter we heated our home from the steam off our own bodies?

  Andrea Gibson

  Song, Home, Cutting

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• The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.

  Emma Donoghue

  Pages Turning, Sound, Paper

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• The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Memories, Calendars, Return

  Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “Palace of Desire: The Cairo Trilogy”, p.19, Anchor

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• Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom.

  Katherine Paterson

  Fun, Magic Kingdom, Sitting

  Katherine Paterson (1995). “Bridge to Terabithia”, Hippo Bks

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• When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance.

  John Keats

  Night, Thinking, Hands

  1818 'When I Have FearsThat I May Cease to Be'.

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• Christian's family lived under the shadow cast by his parents. They had purposely become Striogi, trading thier magic and mortality to become immortal and subsist on killing others. His parents were dead now, but that didn't stop people from not trusting him. They seemed to think he'd go Strigoi at any moment and take everyone else with him. His abrasiveness and dark sence of humor didn't really help things, either.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Dark, Thinking

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• My child, you have a flawed grasp of the nature of myth-making. I am a poet and storyteller, a creator of ballads and sagas. Pray do not confuse the exercise of the imagination with mere mendacity. I am a master of the mysteries of words, their meanings and music and mellifluous magic.

  Frances Hardinge

  Children, Exercise, Imagination

  Frances Hardinge (2011). “Fly By Night”, p.21, Pan Macmillan

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• Houdini, the magician who debunked magic, could not bear to see the great rationalist [Arthur Conan] Doyle enchanted by ghosts and frauds. And so he did what any friend would: He set out to prove spiritualism false and rob his friend Doyle of the only comforting fiction that was keeping him sane. It was the least he could do.

  John Hodgman

  Comforting, Fiction, Bears

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• 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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