Magic Quotes - Page 31

• 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

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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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• 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

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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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• Magic causes as much trouble as it cures.

  J. K. Rowling

  Causes, Trouble, Cures

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• 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

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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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• And who shall say--whatever disenchantment follows--that we ever forget magic; or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple-tree, the singing, and the gold?

  Thomas Wolfe

  Apples, Tree, Singing

  Thomas Wolfe (2006). “Look Homeward, Angel”, p.372, Simon and Schuster

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• it's a kiss full of promise, of trust and of all that is magic.

  Laurie Faria Stolarz

  Kissing, Promise

  Laurie Faria Stolarz (2011). “White is for Magic”, p.284, North Star Editions, Inc.

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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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• What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Heart, Inexplicable, Sheer

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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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• They don't know we're not allowed to use magic at home. I'm going to have a lot of fun with Dudley this summer.

  J. K. Rowling

  Summer, Fun, Home

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• I believe that she has the kind of magic that causes revolutions and promotes great discoveries. There’s nothing I enjoy more than to observe Gabriela in the midst of a group of people. Do you know what she reminds me of? A fragrant rose in a bouquet of artificial flowers.

  Jorge Amado

  Believe, Flower, Discovery

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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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• …I noticed you don’t have any self-defense training…” “…I can handle myself just fine.” She stared at me for a long, uncomfortable moment. Finally, “In the very short time I’ve known you, you have been chased, shot, robbed, stabbed, drugged, and attacked by magic.” “I’m still breathing, aren’t I?

  Devon Monk

  Self, Breathing, Long

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

  Jim Butcher

  Dresden Files

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• The film medium is some sort of magic. I think also it's a magic that every frame comes and stands still for a fraction of a second and then it darkens. A half part of the time when you see a picture you sit in complete darkness. Isn't that fascinating? That is magic.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Thinking, Darkness, Half

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• But when you have order, you don't need Gods. When everything is well ordered and disciplined then nothing is unexpected. If you understand everything,' I said carefully, 'then there's no room left for magic. It's only when you're lost and frightened and in the dark that you call on the Gods, and they like us to call on them. It makes them feel powerful, and that's why they like us to live in chaos.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Powerful, Dark, Order

  Bernard Cornwell (1998). “Enemy of God: A Novel of Arthur”, p.48, Macmillan

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• I’ve often wished that I had some suave and socially acceptable hobby that I could fall back on in times like this. You know, play the violin (or was it the viola) like Sherlock Holmes, or maybe twiddle away on the pipe organ like the Disney version of Captain Nemo. But I don’t. I’m sort of the arcane equivalent of a classic computer geek. I do magic, in one form or another, and that’s pretty much it. I really need to get a life, one of these days

  Jim Butcher

  Fall, Play, Suave

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.87, Penguin Group

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• It's no good. I've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour, and I can't. Writing here is a sort of drug. It's the only thing I look forward to. This afternoon I read what I wrote... And it seemed vivid. I know it seems vivid because my imagination fills in all the bits another person wouldn't understand. I mean, it's vanity. But it seems a sort of magic... And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did

  John Fowles

  Writing, Mean, Sleep

  John Fowles (2010). “The Collector”, p.165, Random House

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• But witchy magic doesn’t listen to please and pretty please, and anyway, I didn’t really care. I only pretended to care because not caring makes me a monster.

  Franny Billingsley

  Caring, Monsters, Care

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.59, A&C Black

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• Obviously the whole Wayward thing hasn't been explained to you properly. You don't have any superpowers. You can't leap over tall buildings in a single bound or fight Dark Casters with your magic cat. Basically, you're a glorified tour guide who's no better equipped to face a bunch of Dark Casters than Mary P. over here -Ridley

  Kami Garcia

  Cat, Fighting, Dark

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• Fairy's side note: Even people who don't believe in magic really do.

  Janette Rallison

  Believe, People, Sides

  Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.10, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Beautiful songs could sometimes take a person out of themselves and carry them away to a place of magic. But when Jill sang, it was not about the song, really. She could sing the phone book. She could sing a shopping list. Whatever she sang, whatever the words or the tune, it was so beautiful, so achingly lovely, that no one could listen and be untouched.

  Michael Grant

  Beautiful, Song, Book

  Michael Grant (2010). “Lies”, p.12, Harper Collins

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