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Quotes About Magic

Everything that deceives also enchants.
~ Plato
Magic happens when and where it wants to.
~ Poppy Z. Brite
All sorcerers had studied alchemy to some extent, and all alchemists, at least those worth their salt, knew how to cook.
~ R. Scott Bakker
KARRU MARRI ODONNA LOMA MOLONU KARRANO.
~ R.L. Stine
I was stunned. "I wished it," I murmured. "And now it's come true." "What are you talking about?" Foz demanded. He grabbed me by the shoulders. "Get it together, Tim. We've got to do something! What's going to happen when your parents get home?" "I told Ginny I'd turn her into a rabbit," I explained, still dazed. "To get back at her for ruining all my magic shows. And now she is a rabbit!
~ R.L. Stine
I can always stuff you back in the bottle and shove a tampon in the top instead of a stopper, and all the other Djinn will point and laugh-
~ Rachel Caine
She didn't know what Liam made his coffee with, but it had to be magical sparkles and crack beans, because it was the most delicious stuff she'd ever tasted.
~ Rachel Caine
smoke rose from my hand as it pressed against the white painted door
~ Rachel Caine
Alchemy is a science, but a science that acknowledges certain principles of magic. This. . . this is a mathematical expression of quintessence, Archimedes' fifth element, which binds all things together.
~ Rachel Caine
Dash believed in magic. Dash loved Christmas. Dash loved me!
~ Rachel Cohn
Cinderella!" Dov cried. "Let down your hair!
~ Rachel Cohn
Maybe if it were up to me I wouldn't have the whole world collectively believe in Santa Claus, but I would definitely have them collectively believe in something , because there is a messed-up kind of beauty in the way we can all bend over backward to make life seem magical when we want to.
~ Rachel Cohn
Christmas could begin. Magic could happen.
~ Rachel Cohn
I could always find peace in books." "And escape?" "Escape, sure. But it wasn't so much about getting away, as going to. You can go anywhere in a book. Books are adventure. Knowledge. Possibility. Magic.
~ Rachel Cohn
Powers that be, powers of three, let Caterina's destiny be all that I see.
~ Unknown
The source of magic in this world is more mysterious than all the explanations that sorcerers and wizards have given for it, and it is more prevalent than can be understood by those who live according to the constricted form of reason so prevalent in our time.
~ Dean Koontz
The World itself is a wonderland, young man, as you well know.
~ Dean Koontz
Music-good music, great music-is itself magical, it's mysterious inspiration entwined with the mystery of all things. When we are transported either by Mozart or Glenn Miller, we find ourselves in the presence of the ineffable, for which all words are so in adequate that to attempt to describe it, even with effusive praise and words of perfect beauty, is to engage in blasphemy.
~ Dean Koontz
thaumaturge
~ Dean Koontz
In order to put a curse on someone and be absolutely certain that it would bring about the desired calamity, a Bocor required an icon of the intended victim.
~ Dean Koontz
Mr. Vanadium, your quarter trick is really cool. But here's something out of Heinlein.
~ Dean Koontz
At the door to the hall, she switched off the lights, leaving the mouse in the shadows that, when the twilight whispered away on the evening breeze, would have what magic this world allowed
~ Dean Koontz
a magic egg swaddled in a nest, waiting for its mystery to hatch, and the night grew yet darker.
~ Dean Koontz
a world of wonder beyond.
~ Dean Koontz