Magic Quotes

“That which you call magic is simply not allowing the world to be other than as you will it.”
― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower

“He wanted a home. He wanted a family. He wanted to have friends. But none of those things were realistic. At least not until he came to Mineral Wells. Right now Carter was just trying to hold on to the happiness he'd found since meeting Mr. Vernon the previous night.
"To belong, okay??" Carter snapped. He felt tears in his eyes, but he wasn't sure. Quickly, he wiped at them. "You don't know what it's like to be alone.”
― Neil Patrick Harris, The Magic Misfits

“Klara has always known she’s meant to be a bridge: between reality and illusion, the present and the past, this world and the next. She just has to figure out how.”
― Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists

“If the pit of love never ceases, I will continue to look for the bottom, so you can have it all.”
― Jacob L. White, Grassin

“For years I looked for you. I never gave up, but I never imagined that fate would bring you to Mineral Wells."
"Not fate," Leila said. "Magic."
Magic, fate, or coincidence. Carter wasn't sure which was which anymore.”
― Neil Patrick Harris, The Magic Misfits

“Magic is seeing the 'extra' in the ordinary.”
― David Cuschieri

“Tu crois encore secrètement que la magie existe dans ce monde ? Erreur, le monde n'est qu'un amas de molécules sans âmes qui se cognent les unes aux autres au hasard.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars / An Abundance of Katherines

“When the artist leaves a painting on a wall with the full confidence that the mastery of his skill, soul and vision will draw others into its vortex long after he is gone, he is using the grip of seduction. When the musician’s performance, the manipulation of her instrument and the command of her talents are so raw and uninhibited that onlookers feel connected to the cosmos, bridged by the pure genius they are now experiencing, she is using the mystery of seduction. The unexplainable feeling fans get when the athlete ceases to be an athlete and rises to the level of the untouchable magician that can make anything happen, is nothing less than the power of seduction at work. The immense value of seduction is its ability to skillfully allure others into one’s world . . . .”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones, Sleeping With Enormity: The Art Of Seducing Your Dreams & Living With Passion

“One cannot expect to travel far without faith.”
― Erin Forbes, Fire & Ice: The Elementals

“The older wounds had long ago taken hold of her body, leaving behind a map of her biggest victories.”
― Konstantina P., WolfHeart

“Thus each step in sorcery is also a step in slavery; and that any man should put such power in the hands of another, no matter for what hope of gain, is one of the mysteries of perverse psychology.”
― Aleister Crowley, Moonchild

“Strange thing about forgetting spell. They fade on their own. Unless we don't let go.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light

“It was the colors that had initially attracted her, the vibrant blue of the Bunsen flame and the dusty red of copper and the deep violet of permanganate. It was the logic of balanced equations, the certainty that when element A mixed with element B, compound C would appear. It was like predicting the future; it was like magic. Most of all, it was being: of having to be so careful with the hydrochloric acid, of accidentally burning herself while lighting a match, of discovering.”
― Amy Zhang, Falling into Place

“They also knew that the most frightening Talent was that which required no fanfare at all, that which slipped unnoticed to lie beside you at night and whispered hello from the other side of the pillow.”
― Jaida Jones, Shadow Magic

“He grasped her chin trying to make sense of her words, smearing her face with the blood of the people he had killed for her.”
― Konstantina P., WolfHeart

“It felt like, despite the years since the last spilt blood, the screams had taken root, imbuing the heavy stones with their echo.”
― Konstantina P., WolfHeart

“Silent as shadows. Bold as night. Calm as wind. One shall die tonight.”
― Ella Fleming-Christie, Crimson Exchange

“We are great magicians.
We can magnify the
magnificence of a moment
with the magic of our minds.
Our thoughts can make us see
the 'extra' in the ordinary.”
― David Cuschieri

“She'd have no purpose in a world like this one,' I explained. 'Not now. Even if we did rebuild her-and if I thought we could, if I thought that would make you both happy...' I shook my head. 'In any case, with all that being beside the point, she'd be too big for how things stand in Thremedon now. So, the only other alternative would be to make her smaller- take that same spark she had, reduce her to something tiny enough to fit in your pocket, or in the palm of your hand. And that's all wrong too, isn't it? She wouldn't be the same. What you might have thought you could do- return to a time and place when the war was still being fought, when the Corps was still trying to win- it would require a different sort of magician. I don't think there's ever been one that powerful.”
― Jaida Jones, Dragon Soul

“Your life will fade but not end, because you cannot die where the dead live.”
― Autumn M. Birt, A New Goddess

“The town lay beneath their feet, its outskirts in ruin from the negligence of arrogant people who thought it was acceptable to let everything fall apart because they could rebuild it without lifting a finger.”
― Konstantina P., WolfHeart

“If the worst came, they would do their sad duty and fight the last battle above the dead bodies of their friends.”
― Konstantina P., WolfHeart

“The colours of the world had faded; not even the sun could make it past the death cloud surrounding the two armies.”
― Konstantina P., WolfHeart

“Once, within the dark threads of her existence, love was the reason she fought through all her troubles. Now it was the same reason that drove her toward her uncertain fate. She would welcome her own death once everything was over.”
― Ella Fleming-Christie, Crimson Exchange

“Ayara was no saviour tonight. No, she wasn’t a saviour at all.
Ayara Drogon was a Shadow Assassin and she was the personification of death.”
― Ella Fleming-Christie, Crimson Exchange

“She loved her mother, but she loved Kestrel more than her own life.”
― Ella Fleming-Christie, Crimson Exchange

“People liked to believe in magic.”
― C. Robert Cargill, Sea of Rust

“Strange thing about forgetting spell. They fade on their own. Unless we don't let go.”
― Victoria Schwab

“When Klara plucks a coin from inside someone's ear or turns a ball into a lemon, she hopes not to deceive but to impart a different kind of knowledge, an expanded sense of possibility. The point is not to negate reality, but to peel back its scrim, revealing reality's peculiarities and contradictions. The very best magic tricks, the kind Klara wants to perform, do not subtract from reality. They add.”
― Chloe Benjaminjam

“When Klara plucks a coin from inside someone's ear or turns a ball into a lemon, she hopes not to deceive but to impart a different kind of knowledge, an expanded sense of possibility. The point is not to negate reality, but to peel back its scrim, revealing reality's peculiarities and contradictions. The very best magic tricks, the kind Klara wants to perform, do not subtract from reality. They add.”
― Chloe Benjamin