Quotes About Sorcery

Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happened, flavoured with a dash of sorcery and spiced with dragons. I take that as a compliment.

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

Manier savamment une langue, c'est pratiquer une espèce de sorcellerie évocatoire »

O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate

Tequila, scorpion honey, harsh dew of the doglands, essence of Aztec, crema de cacti; tequila, oily and thermal like the sun in solution; tequila, liquid geometry of passion; Tequila, the buzzard god who copulates in midair with the ascending souls of dying virgins; tequila, firebug in the house of good taste; O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate!

Giulia was a mistress of the art of making philters...she knew herbs and the power of talismans; she could even bring about the death of anyone she chose by uttering terrible incantations.

That was a lesson Melisandre had learned long before Asshai; the more effortless the sorcery appears, the more men fear the sorcerer.

You will never walk again, Bran," the pale lips promised, "but you will fly.

Sorcery was a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.

The world the Citadel is building has no place in it for sorcery or prophecy or glass candles, much less for dragons.

Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence

The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.

She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost; like drowning in a witches' brew, Keltic, sorcerous, starlike.

Larkspur lifting turquoise spires Bluer than the sorcerer's fires.

Something shadowy and female happened between them, as mysterious and primal as witches' brew.

The chilly rationale of hindsight is what exposes the how and why of something that once seemed supernatural. It's the magician's manual that shows you how the tricks are done, not with sorcery but with careful cues and mysterious devices.

In which witches will be witches

FAUSTUS: Bell, book and candle, candle, book and bell, Forward and backward, to curse Faustus to hell.

Take your sorcerer's stone elsewhere.

You must be a wizard." She took an unsteady breath. "Because you can turn a rational, intelligent woman into a lusty wench who would do anything—anything—to have you between her thighs." "Good

This, he never doubted, was magic.

WHO CALLS UPON THE HIGH WARLOCK?

Magic is dangerous - but love is more dangerous still

All the rest of the nonsense a story requires is just a long seduction of the ending. You throw out murders and reversals and heroes and detectives and spies, juggle love affairs and near escapes and standoffs with marvellous guns, kidnappings and sorcery and comic relief and gravediggers and princesses and albino dragons, and it's all just to lure an ending into your bed.