People need to stop and think. Let the magic of the movie wear off a little before you buy a dog.

We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

Holy cow, she’d just slept with the hottest guy in the universe. She, the super science geek. The you-go-girl side of her brain wahooed. The rational side of her brain spat out a resounding, Oh...

The risks involved in the pursuit of magic are–put simply–either getting frightened by unpleasant perceptions or becoming deluded. Unfortunately it is possible to suffer from both symptoms at the same time.

in the afterglowof an evening raini lay downin the grass and think of youmy body acheslike an after-kissbreaking in soft firesand wildflowersmy dear, i will always bethis tender for you.

Othalas: Words. What are they but shadows on a page or howling on the wind? They are as ever-changing as the mists below us and it is just as easy to lose sense of yourself...

Sitting at the old patio table she’d cleared of leaves, she smiled and leaned back. The stars looked twisted in the limbs of the trees, like Christmas lights. She felt like part of the hollow...

One true king knew when to step aside and give up the reins of power—to remove his crown and relinquish his kingdom—all for the sake of glimpsing, just once in a lifetime, the face of...

Funny how I keep forgetting you’re insane.” – Colleen O’Brien

The land around Ankh-Morpork is fertile and largely given over to the cabbage fields that help to give the city its distinctive odor.The gray light of pre-dawn unrolled over the blue-green expanse, and around a...

It’s just like any relationship,” Raelin told him with a grin, while Aldri practiced over and over again. “You need to coax her, persuade her, impress her, not knock her over the head with a...

Fuck me, I thought. I can do magic.

A bad magician never gets the good props.

Think like magician, present like magician and perform like magician.

The funny thing about mundies is how obsessed with magic they are for a bunch of people who don’t even know what the word means.

In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go,...

And all the while Stephen started at me as if I were something magical. Not the ugly way other people sometimes stare at me, like he was meeting someone in a foreign country who spoke...

Music has more rules than math or magic and it’s twice as dangerous as both or either.

Reading is where the magic happens

Why does there appear to be so little magic in the world these days? It is because people have stopped believing in it or lose touch with it as they grow up. It is because...

Run fast!

I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sence enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us – like electricity and horses and steam.

The magic of love is that it becomes our memory which we never can forget.

Charles realized that if he were going to apologize to Chrestomanci, he had better do it at once. He turned around to say it. But the folds had already rippled flat and nothing was the...

Why all this death?You might as easily ask ‘Why all this life?’.

At its most elemental, a spell is no more than a recipe for change.

I am possibly the world’s greatest magician, because I don’t just vanish off stage, I vanish from your memory. I’ll bet you’re probably thinking, “I don’t remember seeing you,” or “I’ve never seen you.” And...

Not all magic is fireworks and fanfare. Sometimes magic is quiet and sneaks up on you. An illusion is what needs all the bells and whistles to make itself appear grander than it really is,...

And as if by magic – and it may have been magic, for I believe America is the land of magic, and that we, we now past Americans, were once the magical people of it,...

…The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue.This, all by itself, is enough to really ruin your day.I was lying on the examining table, and Butters, complete with his surgical gown...

As was often the case, Magic just chuckled and kicked physics in the balls, leaving it groaning and wondering what just happened.

You can never be sure where you are with magic.

Philosophy will clip an Angel’s wings,Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,Empty the haunted air, and gnomèd mine—Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile madeThe tender-person’d Lamia melt into a shade

Some of these images intricately make me feel that I know these places. I see them like I’ve lived them…a stirring that is so real. A longing a sadness a connection that pulls fully and...

Many stories begin with a dream, but it is rare when the dream is the story itself.

Pick up a thing,” [Wizard Kadmeion’s]mother would say. “Touch, smell, and taste it. Listen to its nonsense. Then put the funny thing in its proper place.

Inside Ms. Maddox’s classroom, it was so quiet you could hear the breathing bounce off the walls.

Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. But sometimes the will must be abandoned. The secret lies in knowing when to exercise control, and when to let go.

A stubborn refusal of the conditions of 20th Century ‘reality’, surrealism has denied intransigently and consistently that modern man can live without a sense of wonder at the world that was once embodied in myth....

Sometimes the dim veil between sanity and insanity is perception.

For a moment, I almost felt sorry for her. Then the bitch blasted me with her water magic, and I got over it.

The slam of a car door drew her attention to a new arrival. Maxville Deputy Sheriff Zach Manus emerged from his unmarked 2011 Camaro and stalked toward them. Deep sorrow and anger laced across his...

See? You are learning,” Sampson said.

You can be a great man and still be a fool. Many of our country’s leaders can attest to that. Were they still living.

As long as we don’t cut off our hearts, the inner workings of the universe illuminate before us.

All Magic Comes With A Price

The Earth created magic to protect the magic that is the Earth.

You can’t magic yourself back 10 years.

In a great number of the cosmogonic myths the world is said to have developed from a great water, which was the prime matter. In many cases, as for instance in an Indian myth, this...

I know. He doesn’t,” Lydia answered.