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Quotes About Spell

His deep voice broke the spell. "So, what do you suggest I do, ladies?" He stared out to sea, knowing very well what he would do. But he wanted to involve these two youngsters, win them over to his side. Draw the enemy in. Drag them over to your camp, until their commander finds herself alone and unsupported . . . vulnerable.
~ Unknown
You can't kill me, I've got a magic... AAAARGH !
~ Terry Pratchett
if the spell was off, I'd have my heart eaten before I could turn around." "Don't you want your heart eaten?" asked the fire. [...] "Naturally I don't," Sophie answered.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Nobody's safe in a wizard's house.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
In the study, The Book of Palimpsest was, for some reason, now open at A Spell to Find Yourself a Handsome Prince. Charmain shook her head and closed the book. Who needs a prince? she said.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Nobody's safe in a wizard's house," Calcifer said feelingly.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Suffering took hold of me like a magic spell abolishing all differences between friends and strangers.
~ Diane Ackerman
Las puestas de sol no tienen prisa, y nosotros tampoco. El cielo se encuentra sometido a un sortilegio poderoso y estructurado.
~ Don DeLillo
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
~ Jacob Bronowski
Crumpled taffeta and crushed satin gave the room an eerie look, as if a magic spell had been cast and people had simply dropped in their tracks.
~ Lurlene McDaniel
You are wrong about witchcraft," I told her. "It does not come from hate. I made my first spell for love of Glaucos." I could hear her mink-voice as if she stood before me. Yet it was in defiance of our father, in defiance of all those who slighted you and would keep you from your desires.
~ Madeline Miller
The second spell I cast beneath it. It was an enchantment woven into the island itself, every bird and beast and grain of sand, every leaf and rock and drop of water. I marked them, and all the generations in their bellies, with Telegonus' name. If ever she did break through that smoke, the island would rise up in his defence, the beasts and birds, the branches and rocks, the roots in the earth.
~ Madeline Miller
I learned to understand my own intention, to prune and to add, to feel where the power gathered and speak the right words to draw it to its height. That was the moment I lived for, when it all came clear at last and the spell could sing with its pure note, for me and me alone.
~ Madeline Miller
Come, make us into magic.
~ Madeline Miller
There I discovered at last the limits of my power. However potent the mixture, however well woven the spell, the toad kept trying to fly, and the mouse to sting. Transformation touched only bodies, not minds.
~ Madeline Miller
You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.
~ C. S. Lewis
At least, I thought in those early days, once I cast a spell, I would not have to learn it again. But even that was not true.
~ Madeline Miller
I heard a humming, like before a spell is cast. His gaze was a honed blade. All this had been prologue. As if we were in a play, we stood.
~ Madeline Miller
181. Pharmakon means drug, but as Jacques Derrida and others have pointed out, the word in Greek famously refuses to designate whether poison or cure. It holds both in the bowl. In the dialogues Plato uses the word to refer to everything from an illness, its cause, its cure, a recipe, a charm, a substance, a spell, artificial color, and paint.
~ Maggie Nelson
Which witch is which?
~ John Updike
A mage's soul is forged in the crucible of the magic
~ Margaret Weis
get back, get back! ill turn you into a piglet! ast a bula- no wait. that turns ME into a piglet!!
~ Margaret Weis
THE country round the Mill at Pontisbright at five o'clock on a June morning was of itself a spell. The near distance was dizzy with haze, the dew beads were thick on the grass, the waters were limpid and ringing, the birds sang with idiotic abandon, the air was scented with animals and a thousand flowers.
~ Margery Allingham
There's no subtext in Harry Potter really; it's all magic, anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it's a magic spell. It's quite nice in a way. There is a real freedom to it.
~ Michael Gambon