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Quotes About Magic

When you turn something into stone, you take out the moisture that makes most of the bulk of flesh. A really good mage could turn you into a pebble," said the really good mage before me.
~ Patricia Briggs
Witches are bitches and they'll burn your britches sure as kittens have itches if you give 'em half a chance." Elizaveta
~ Patricia Briggs
Lugh's walking stick ate the Gray Lord's spell, and in doing so, it died. To save me.
~ Patricia Briggs
I may have bought the business from him, but when we worked together, he still gave the orders. Part of it was habit, I suppose, but a larger part of it was that, though I am a good mechanic, Zee is magic. Literally and figuratively. If it weren't for his tendency to get bored with easy stuff, he'd never have hired me. Then I'd have had to take my liberal arts degree and gotten a job at McDonald's or Burger King like all the rest of the history majors.
~ Patricia Briggs
They came to see Glinda the Good Witch, but after midnight, they found the Wicked Witch of the West and left quaking in fear of flying monkeys.
~ Patricia Briggs
One by one, two by two, the Hardesty witches are traveling through. With a storm of curses, they call from their tomes; they will drink your blood and dine on your bones.
~ Patricia Briggs
He knew that Wiccans consider themselves witches—and some of them had enough witchblood to make it so. But witches, the real thing, weren't witches because of what they believed, but because of genetic heritage.
~ Patricia Briggs
There is magic in places that are between: crossroads, thresholds, bridges.
~ Patricia Briggs
Witches are bitches and they'll burn your britches sure as kittens have itches if you give 'em half a chance.
~ Patricia Briggs
The Princess and the Goblin.
~ Patricia Briggs
About thirty years ago, the Gray Lords, the powerful mages who rule the fae, began to be concerned about advances in science—particularly forensic science.
~ Patricia Briggs
Adam knew of three werewolves who had been witchborn. They were the three most dangerous and powerful werewolves in the world
~ Patricia Briggs
SILVERLESS, DE-MAGICKED, AND VOWING NEVER TO PLAY word one-upmanship—or even Scrabble for that matter—with either Adam or Asil (What exactly was a quicquidlibet, anyway?)
~ Patricia Briggs
Very well. You may help me to exterminate the society of wizards.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
Kim lifted the lid. Inside, on a small pillow covered in white velvet, lay a gold sunburst the size of her thunbnail, hung on a delicate chain. It looked a little like the first spell she had ever cast, a small explosion of light re-created in metal, and she was not really surprised to find the card with the single word "Mairelon" scrawled across it.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
One of the previous Kings of the Enchanted Forest had been very fond of sweeping up and down staircases in a long velvet robe and his best crown, so he had added stairs wherever he thought there was room
~ Patricia C. Wrede
Except you. The revelation was so blindingly sudden the words almost slipped out, and she had to bit her tongue and look away. pg 391, A Matter of Magic
~ Patricia C. Wrede
Fee, fie, foe, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman. Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread."   Ballimore shook her head. "Nonsense, dear. It's just Princess Cimorene and the King of the Enchanted Forest." "And neither of us is English," Cimorene added.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
Come one, come all! Prepare to be amazed by the one, the only - Mairelon the Magician!
~ Patricia C. Wrede
Oh!" said Cimorene. She had never met a talking frog before. "Are you an enchanted prince?" she asked a little doubtfully. "No, but I've met a couple of them, and after a while you pick up a few things," said the frog.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
DEEP IN THE ENCHANTED FOREST, in a neat gray house with a wide porch and a red roof, lived the witch Morwen and her nine cats. The cats were named Murgatroyd, Fiddlesticks, Miss Eliza Tudor, Scorn, Jasmine, Trouble, Jasper Darlington Higgins IV, Chaos, and Aunt Ophelia, and not one of them looked anything like a witch's cat.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
He noticed, without surprise, that the two cats had come along, even though he had not specifically included them in the transportation spell. Cats were like that.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
A plain sword. No wonder I couldn't block it. I thought it was a spell.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
Patricia C. Wrede
~ Unknown