Magic Quotes - Page 30

• 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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• But magic, like everything else, follows certain natural laws. Magic needs energy wherever it can find it. If no other source of energy is available, it will take the life force of the magician who created it. That is why every use of magic weakens the magician.

  Michael Scott

  Law, Energy, Needs

  Michael Scott (2012). “The First Codex”, p.87, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• The fifth force was the magic of Time, the greatest of all the magics.

  Michael Scott

  Force, Fifth

  Michael Scott (2012). “The First Codex”, p.106, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• But magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses.

  Michael Scott

  Spectrum, Senses, Utilization

  Michael Scott (2012). “The First Codex”, p.142, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• You're saying we lost the powers of magic because we grew lazy.

  Michael Scott

  Lazy, Lost, Grew

  Michael Scott (2012). “The First Codex”, p.142, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.

  Michael Scott

  Imagination, Shapes, Auras

  Michael Scott (2012). “The First Codex”, p.143, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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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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• Do not imagine that art or anything else is other than high magic! - is a system of holy hieroglyph. The artist, the initiate, thus frames his mysteries. The rest of the world scoff, or seek to understand, or pretend to understand; some few obtain the truth.

  Aleister Crowley

  Art, World, Mystery

  Aleister Crowley “The Equinox Vol. 1. No. 6.”, Lulu.com

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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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• In a way. Magic is the act of making a wish come about. Like praying, like plotting, like herbs, like exerting your will on the world, making something happen.

  Philippa Gregory

  Wish, World, Way

  Philippa Gregory (2013). “The Lady of the Rivers”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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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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• I see murky visions of other gods and rival magic." That REALLY didn't sound good. "What do you mean?" I asked. "what OTHER GODS?" "I don't know, Sadie. But Egypt has always faced challenges from outside –– magicians from elsewhere, even gods from elsewhere. Just be vigilant." ~Ruby & Sadie Kane about...? Possibly Greeks?

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Egypt, Challenges

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• Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together... and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home... only to no home I'd ever known... I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic. - Sleepless in Seattle

  Nora Ephron

  Romantic, Home, Hands

  "Fictional character: Sam Baldwin". "Sleepless in Seattle", www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• This is, in part, why there is less magic in the world today. Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all, and years upon years of teaching and sharing magic and worse. Writing it down in fancy books that get all dusty with age has lessened it, removed its power bit by bit.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Book, Teaching, Writing

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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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• I’m warning you, stay back! This sword has magic.' 'Magic!' the dragon gasped in mock fright. It put a claw to its breast. 'Oh, please, brave man, don’t slay me with your magic sword!

  Terry Goodkind

  Men, Dragons, Brave

  Terry Goodkind (2010). “Wizard's First Rule”, p.511, RosettaBooks

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• It's a little known fact, but parents are like superheroes. With just a few magic words they can make you feel ten feet tall and bulletproof, they can slay the dragons of doubt and worry, they can make your problems disappear. But of course they can only do this as long as you're a child. When you've become an adult, become the master of your own universe, they're not as powerful as they once were. Maybe that's why so many of us take our time growing up.

  Lisa Unger

  Powerful, Children, Growing Up

  Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.54, Crown

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• And yet ... But what if ... I want to do something impossible. Something astounding and unheard of. I want to scrub the moss off the Space Shuttle and fly Julie to the moon and colonise it, or float a capsized cruise ship to some distant island where no one will protest us, or just harness the magic that brings me into the brains of the Living and use it to bring Julie into mine, because it's warm in here, it's quiet and lovely, and in here we aren't an absurd juxtaposition, we are perfect.

  Isaac Marion

  Moon, Islands, Space

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• I read books when I was a kid, lots of books. Books always seemed like magic to me. They took you to the most amazing places. When I got older, I realized that I couldn't find books that took me to all of the places I wanted to go. To go to those places, I had to write some books myself.

  Pat Murphy

  Book, Writing, Kids

  "The Wild Girls".

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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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• Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? -- not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier? Fair as is the gliding sloop on the shining sea, the wavering, trembling, unresting sail below is fairer still...All mirrors are magic mirrors. The commonest room is a room in a poem when I turn to the glass...There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.

  George MacDonald

  Strong, Reflection, Reality

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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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• 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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