Quotes About Magic

I think there is an element of magic in photography — light, chemistry, precious metals — a certain alchemy. You can wield a camera like a magic wand almost. Murmur the right words and you can conjure up proof of a dream. I believe in wonder. I look for it in my life every day; I find it in the most ordinary things.

I'd been staring at the search term for at least five minutes. One word. Necromancer.

I saw my true power. The darkest power. The greatest power. ~Jaime Vegas

The part about me being an 'okay sorcerer'? 'Not great'? No I believe I missed that. -Lucas Cortez (Dime Store Magic)

Were you crying? Tori peered at my face. You were. I-it's nothing. I— Simon pulled something, didn't he? Got you out on that walk, and the next thing you know, it's not your hand he's holding. Her eyes blaze. Guys. They can be such— It wasn't like that. If he pulled that crap, you can tell me. I've had a few surprise first dates myself. Wish I'd had my spells then. Especially the binding one.

Jonathan is an old friend from Unstable. Connolly frowns. Does he have a magical power? He doesn't need one. I take out my phone. He's a librarian.

Derek) No casting? No practicing? He shook his head. Don't tell Simon that. Don't tell Simon what? said a voice behind us. We turned to see Simon step out of the doorway. That Tori doesn't need to use incantations to cast, Derek said. Seriously? He swore. You're right. Don't tell me. He picked his way across the roof. Better yet, don't tell her that I need incantations and weeks of practice, and I still suck.

Enigma! I call, adding a Here, kitty, kitty, kitty! because obviously it's the universal language for feline summoning. And maybe it is -- no sooner do I croon that magic phrase than I hear an answering meow.

Everyone knows that wizards are pigheaded and come to bad ends.

The witch knew who had killed her and she snatched pieces of time, here and there, from the business of dying, to make her revenge.

small forest of mirrored candelabras

The cats watch, but don't interfere. The witch gasps and coughs and then lies still. Her hands beat against the bed once and then are still. Still the children wait, to make sure that she is dead, and that she has nothing else to say. In the witch's house, the dead are sometimes quite talkative. But the witch has nothing else to say at this time.

It worked because I asked justly. Magic makes judgments. Remember that.

By the pink left nipple of sweet Vashtilulu the Buxom! I feel you have Koztivkure slung on your back! Strike down the foul wizard, and have done! Aye, squeaked Tosho, for what he had you do to me, do as Krak says, and strike his blasphemous head from his loathsome shoulders!

The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic and power that is likely to flow from it.

...words are not only meaning but music and magic and power.

A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.

...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.

Intention is power. Intention is ownership. Intention is commitment. Intention is magic.

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

We almost need another word for fairy, that's the thing. Once people get to see what fairies' real power is, then they understand.

The software is where the magic is. If you're going to have all this power be simple enough, appealing enough and cool enough, it's going to be because the software is right.

If I need something, I just draw it, have a few friends make it move, and it exists. I enjoy this strange power. I try to be a good sorcerer, though.

Language is inexorably tied to power and understanding. And power and understanding are the roots of magic. Just the act of writing something down is a magical act.