Quotes About Magic

Cast a spell and the small flaws don't matter. (From Workbook)

Freedom, if it emerges like magic from consciousness (like the conjuring of consciousness itself!) seems best recognized in the choices made for love.

Arthur Clarke once remarked that the best technology was indistinguishable from magic.

Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.

Magic is like that more often than not. Unseen. Subdued, not ostentatious. Unremarkable. It is the universe's way of regulating itself.

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.

Science is taking over magic's place in the world, and magic is fighting back.

Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians

One day when I was little, and my parents were having a party, I went around to all the adults and said, "Drink this, it'll make you taller, it's magic." And they all drank it and said, "How cute. How weird." And then I snuck off into the room where they kept all the coats and hemmed everyone's sleeves an inch shorter.

Magic is optimism and hope, isn't it? The desire for more than what is mundane to appear.

He wanted to offer reassurance, encouragment, but a maelstorm of images silenced his words. Heavy breathing, but of terror, not desire. Owen's taut body, his hammering heart, his hunger to plunder and invade held back. As well as this, a pitiful ache of longing, of feelings impossible to articulate, a sense of history, of timelessness, a silver reed of connection stretching back into the black diamond-studded night of eternity and magic, the earth, the power, a circle.

The air was hushed and still as if the fog were an enchantment beneath whose spell the whole world slept.

Sometimes he felt priveleged being part of Maycarpe's magical machine, but at other times, he felt like a fly caught in the grease of the cogs, who would presently be ground up by the inexorable, slowly turning metal.

Akahana was dizzying, mainly because it seemed to be several different places at once. On the surface, it was all hustle and heat, yet Shan was immediately aware of a dark and inscrutable undercurrent-magic hanging in the air, as Sinaclara had foretold. It also seemed as if if the ancient past was very close to the present and that it would be possible, either accidentally or otherwise to slip between the two.

I see a boy. Ah, he is beautiful, and he has the way of wyrd within him.

Caradoreans were valued in Magrast. They were seen as lucky, as if they carried a special magic in their blood.

Belief is magic, Lily. Add your will to mine.

Melandra found that the word Grigori acted like an cantrip-it opened doors and minds.

Many magical traditions work with the eastern belief that there are seven energy centres in the human body, each displaying a pure, vibrant colour of the spectrum. These energy centres are known as chakras, and the condition of the energy within them has direct effects upon our health and well-being.

You're no longer touched by the magic of this place, are you?

Perhaps a measure of Waters of Life to clear his senses." "No," snarled Khaster. "Give me the Witch." "Khas…" "I'm all right. Give it to me.

The crone's words hung on the air as if she'd scrawled them in light.

The Sink looked utterly enchanted, as if everyone was under the spell of a magical sleep.

We giggled again, like girls. We were so different, yet the interval of years was meaningless. It was as if we'd seen each other every day since then. Very few friendships have this magic.