Quotes About Magic

I'd felt the ruma had magically understood everything that happened, but now I realize his gifts may have less to do with magic than with interpreting the world around him in a magical way.

There was stardust in her bones.

Harry Houdini had a saying that came back to Ian now and again: For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who don't, none will suffice.

Was this how the characters in Harry Potter felt when the spoke the name of You-Know-Who?

This page is is a time machine, a teleporter, a magic wand. With it you can create a world. Give life. Take it away.

The woods were deserted that day. The stones stood still and silent, as though they were waiting for something. At the center of them all, a jagged piece of amber glowed in the growing darkness. Lights fizzed softly around it, turning pink, orange, purple, blue. No one saw it. No one ever did. Why would they? No one knoew about its magic, not anymore. They had forgotten all about such magic a long, long time ago. About the same time they stopped believing in faries. How foolish.

The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes.

Two things never mix: one is enchantments and the other is meddling with them.

Hwoinch!' said Hen Wen.

often the trouble with magical things. They're never quite what you'd expect.

It was a night when you might expect to stray into a dance of mermaids.

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. And they lived happily ever after

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same.

Maybe it is something that artists have," she said, liking the sound of the word she had just learned. "A special kind of magic knowledge.

Yes, she dyes the threads and then she makes pictures from them. No one else can do it. She has like a magic touch, they say. And they want her for that." "She would be honored in Village.

It was all sympathetic magic. When you couldn't do something truly useful, you tended to vent the pent-up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

Pen wanted to ask if becoming a sorcerer made a man more, or less, attractive as a husband, but he had an uneasy feeling that he could guess.

Are you saying a sorcerer could burst into flames?" "Mm, no, the body is too wet for that. He would more just . . . burst. Like a grilled sausage splitting its casing.

new "fact of life" (one that conformed to the secret nature of the sun) became the magical formula of the aeon; life comes from death.

For a magician, it is better to be possessed by the demon than ignored by him. Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford

Figure 15. The pentagram—spirit rulership of the four

Our lord is a magic lord as we all desired, and magical things have sought him from over there, and they all obey his hests. It is so, said all but Gazic. And Gazic rose up in a pause of their gladness. Many strange things, he said, have entered our village, coming from over there. And it may be that human folk are best, and the ways of the fields we know.

Those that know of... Paths of space... Have little time to waste on such things as magic... And those who know whence poetry is, and the need that man has for song, or know any one of the fifty branches of magic, have little time to waste on such things as science...

He did not seem like a fallen angel now. His spell had stopped. He seemed like a professor who had forgotten the theme of his lecture, while the class waits. For Morano was holding up the sign of the cross. You have betrayed me! shouted the Slave of Orion. Master, Morano said, it was always good against magic.