Quotes About Magic

I knew that reading that book would take me into another world — the real world, not the ordinary world of washing the dishes and mopping the floor. It would be like what Keats said about gazing through a magic casement into faery lands forlorn.

Magic wasn't meant to be captured. You just had to live in the moment.

See what I mean by 'magical'? This was the grown- up equivalent to a kid's Disneyland fantasy. I was definitely enchanted by photos I viewed of Cornwall online, and the Travel Channel's episode I watched on England's southern counties made me even more desperate to land the position before a lucky rival could snatch it up.

one must always know when to yield magic into the hands of the children who wanted to eat it up.

Adoraba sumergirse entre sus páginas amarillentas, aspirar el olor a libro viejo y dejarse llevar por el poder de las palabras. Los libros la transportaban a mundos mágicos, lejanos, infinitos, repletos de aventuras y emociones.

Quién es? ¿Un hechicero? ¿Un héroe? -Es un hombre muerto -siseó Kirtash.

Apesto a dragón. - Es parte de tu encanto.

El viento jamás había sonado de aquella manera en ningún otro lugar del mundo.

Su dedo índice recorrió los lomos de los libros, desgastados por el uso y por el tiempo. Eligió uno de sus favoritos y se lo llevó hasta la mecedora. Una vez allí se puso los anteojos y bien acomodada frente al fuego, con una taza de chocolate caliente y el libro abierto sobre su regazo, lo abrió por una página al azar y se dispuso a dejarse llevar por la magia de las palabras.

O Walid, todos decian que estabas inspirado por los djins. Yo soy el djin que te observaba al nacer

ero no reapareció muy lejos, porque no tenía fuerzas para llegar por medios mágicos hasta su casa. Se materializó en lo alto de la torre y contempló el horizonte mientras trataba de recuperarse un poco.

La Luna cambia, varía, se muestra y se oculta –asintió la Echadora de Cartas–. La Luna es engañosa. Ella es, en gran medida, la responsable del estado de confusión del Loco.

A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.

Autumn is a place where words fall short. It is a magic that must be felt, breathed, experienced, and treasured."

Creativity is a dance with the Divine, a connection to Source, a journey through the realm of infinite possibility. To create is pure magic.

The creative plane is pure magic, pure adventure, pure freedom.

Chopped up fairy wings, the heart of a narwhal taken during a lunar eclipse, spit from a consumptive.… Christ. Just drink it, will you?

I can hazily remember, long ago, having adults — librarians, friends' parents — suggest to me that I liked books "with magic" because I wanted to escape from a reality that, by implication, I lacked the gumption to face.

Keep your eyes open, dear. Magic is around us all the time, but if we're not looking, we miss it." . . . "But, Gali, what if you're looking for magic, but you still can't find any?" "Why, then, you make your own magic, Coco.

I'd rather tell you about a new horse, a forest of glass, and a long good night.

I didn't care if it was magic. I just cared that I was riding with you.

When we fear something, when we are faced with the frightening unknown, this is a call to take notice that our fear, this unknown, contains wisdom that will make you much stronger. People are terrified of themselves, and often turn to external means and techniques with the intention of controlling their outer lives, creating the false belief that all is well. If you can go to the place of the deepest parts of yourself, and then proceed from that profundity, you can manifest real magick.

Magick then is the ultimate apotheosis of shape-shifting. Magick is the means to shift oneself from the state of the common everyday Homo sapiens sapiens to the transfigured state of Deum hominem or Divinum hominem, the Divine human.

The magickian causes breath to enter the word. Written words are like dry bones. But with the shaking (vibration) of the wind (respiration) the bones shall live. The sophisticated manipulation of air molecules, in accordance with the alchemical instructions for the pronunciation of the God's 'Name' (usually only transmitted orally from teacher to student) thereby makes manifest, it brings to life, the Divine Being, the one who seemed to have died, before the one who intoned the Name.