Magic Quotes - Page 36

• Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.

  Jasper Fforde

  Book, Kind

  Jasper Fforde (2004). “Well of Lost Plots”, Viking Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• I watched for her hair to curl, the telltale Caster breeze. It didn't move. This wasn't Caster magic she was working. It was another kind altogether. She couldn't charm her way out from under Macon's watch. She would have to resort to older magic, stronger magic, the kind that had worked best on Macon from the time she first moved to Ravenwood. Plain old love.

  Kami Garcia

  Moving, Hair, Stronger

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• Nobody, who looks at a shard of flint lying beneath a rock ledge, or who finds a splintered log by the side of the road would ever find magic in their solitude. But in the right circumstances, if you bring them together, you can start a fire that consumes the world.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Fire, Rocks

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.434, Simon and Schuster

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• Ministry of Magic (M.O.M) Classification. xxxxx Known wizard killer / impossible to train or domesticate / or anything Hagrid likes

  J. K. Rowling

  Ministry, Wizards, Killers

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• Adam wasn't certain what came first with Blue--her treating the boys as friends, or them all becoming friends. It seemed to Adam that this circular way to build relationships required a healthy amount of self-confidence to undertake. And it was a strange sort of magic that it felt like she'd always been hunting for Glendower with them.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Self Confidence, Boys, Hunting

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.192, Scholastic Inc.

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• Of course I saved you," she said. "I couldn't do without you." And because she was happy and flushed with magic Holly leaned down and kissed Artemis, magic sparking around the contact like tiny fireworks.

  Eoin Colfer

  Hollies, Down And, Tiny

  "The Time Paradox (Artemis Fowl, Book 6)". Book by Eoin Colfer, July 16, 2008.

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• Who knows, my friend? Maybe the sword does have some magic. Personally, I think it's the warrior who wields it.

  Brian Jacques

  Warrior, Thinking, Doe

  Brian Jacques (1986). “Redwall”, Ace Books

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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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• Maybe Park had paralyzed her with his ninja magic, his Vulcan handhold, and now he was going to eat her. That would be awesome.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Would Be, Parks, Ninja

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.67, St. Martin's Griffin

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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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• It is the habit of the unthinking to turn to the illusions of economic magic. These unhappy times call for the building of plans that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Pyramids, Unhappy

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• For a while I thought I was the dragon. I guess I can tell you that now. And, for a while, I thought I was the princess, cotton candy pink, sitting there in my room, in the tower of the castle, young and beautiful and in love and waiting for you with confidence but the princess looks into her mirror and only sees the princess, while I’m out here, slogging through the mud, breathing fire, and getting stabbed to death. Okay, so I’m the dragon. Big deal. You still get to be the hero. You get magic gloves! A fish that talks! You get eyes like flashlights!

  Richard Siken

  Beautiful, Hero, Princess

  Richard Siken, “Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out”

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• The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic with divine creatures who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

  Charles Bukowski

  Past, Helping, Common

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Come On In!: New Poems”, p.268, Canongate Books

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• Is magic not enough to live for?

  Erin Morgenstern

  Enough

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

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• This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Science, Thinking, Magic In The World

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.8, Cambridge University Press

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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