Quotes About Magic

What good were the rules of time when the rules of magic contradicted them.

That's the way of the world: The princess can disappear, but the witch is forever.

I understand that you believe that it works,' said Thrower patiently. 'But everything in the world is either science or miracles. Miracles came from God in the ancient times, but those times are over. Today if we wish to change the world, it isn't magic but science that will give us our tools.

it was a kind of magic, like her little fires; a sacrifice that somehow stilled the dark gods that hunted for his soul. Better

Computers were a kind of magery in themselves, or might as well be - to people who didn't understand them, they were every bit as inscrutable.

The difference between science fiction and fantasy…is simply this, science fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

Danny North grew up surrounded by fairies, ghosts, talking animals, living stones, walking trees, and gods who called up wind and brought down rain, made fire from air and drew iron out of the depths of the earth as easily as ordinary people might draw up water from a well.

The root of magic is love, the trunk is service.

Now...different rules of magic prevail; different words have power. Different customs are now required of everyone and you have to obey or pay. And so we all live in a world where other people hold the power, where other people are the mages who know how to whisper to different social elements and make things happen. And most of us stand around bewildered, wondering what the gods will do next to manipulate our lives.

Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.

If you have people do some magic, impossible thing by stroking a talisman or praying to a tree, it's fantasy; if they do the same thing by pressing a button or climbing inside a machine, it's science fiction.

Or in other words, science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.

It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

La gente dice que el coyote es un brujo. Muchas veces el brujo es un coyote.

Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone.

It [the book] was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful..

Life was more difficult in Inkheart, yet it seemed to Meggie that with every new day Fenoglio's story was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful..

Cornelia Funke

She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind?

Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to make wonderful worlds better than this one, comforters, companions in loneliness. Keepers of secrets, speakers of the truth...all those glorious words.

As Mo had said: writing stories is a kind of magic, too.

with every new day, Fenoglio's story was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as spider's webs and enchantingly beautiful

I know you all think I'm a magician, but I'm not. The magic comes out of the books themselves, and I have no more idea than you or any of your men how it works.

Vielleicht war er ja noch da, irgendwo hinter ihren geschlossenen Lidern, vielleicht klebte ja noch etwas Glueck an ihren Wimpern, wie Goldstaub. Liessen Traeume in den Maerchen nicht manchmal so ertwas zurueck?