When two people meet and fall in love, there’s a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One...

Ella, if it’s magic, then nothing is supposed to happen.

Courage is like magic, courage vanishes crisis.

Oh, it better not have just peed on me!” he screamed.

Hey, everyone, it’s Cheeky Galore!

Though in this genre we write about the fantastic, the stories work best when there is solid grounding in our world. Magic works best for me when it aligns with scientific principles. Worldbuilding works best...

I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. Or under a hill....

In this lifetime we are like Superman who must remain disguised as the nerdy newspaper journalist Clark Kent, or Harry Potter and his friends who are not allowed to do magic while they are on...

There was a feeling on the air like the eve of the end of the world.

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

The spells are made up. I have met people who assure me, very seriously, that they are trying to do them, and I can assure them, just as seriously, that they don’t work.

But that was what research and development were like. Full of semi-triumphs and perplexing unforeseen consequences like the whole violent hiccuping thing when conjuring up fire – or the propensity for fillings to fall out...

…the magic was a tool, though a natural, mysterious tool. In its awareness of the magic, his human nature had desired to connect with it, to use it. The whisperings were the voice of his...

I believe that love, like magic, casts its own spell of enchantment.

Must I accept the barren Gift?-learn death, and lose my Mastery?Then let them know whose blood and breathwill take the Gift and set them free:whose is the voice and whose the mindto set at naught...

Books are another kind of magic.

We always underestimated our own participation in magic. That is, we thought of magic as something that existed with or without us. But that’s not true. Things are not magical because they’ve been conjured for...

Be the woman who is remembered for living life to its fullest!

The Paco’s Loco Tacos sign on my right lures me in. Not for the first time, I wonder if the tacos are crazy, if Paco is crazy, or if we are crazy for buying them....

My fingers slipped into his thick, black hair and held tightly. He paused, not wanting to pull away. I didn’t let him. I was going to say goodbye properly. I held tightly, pressing my lips...

Prognoses which have been made contend that our technology will terminate in pure necromancy. If so, everything we now experience would be only a departure and mechanics would become refined to a degree that would...

Sheer male interest filled his gaze which was entirely focused on her. She’d never before felt so female, so utterly desirable, so wanton.

Do we not each dream of dreams? Do we not dance on the notes of lostmemories? Then are we not each dreamers of tomorrow and yesterday, since dreamsplay when time is askew? Are we not...

Oh, but I was an idiot. Wanting to be whatever magic she waited for, when I had no magic – only darkness or death to give. But it seemed in that one instant, when she...

Give contemporary POET more SPACE & a long-last MAGIC will surround you all again.

This is beyond understanding.” said the king. “You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?”And Merlin said quietly, “Because I am wise....

The people who run the circus kidnapped us from our parents. Since we got here, we have all been working in the circus. We can’t see any of our mummies or kiss them OR cuddle...

Fantasyland was designed as a home for some of the classic characters [from those films], and as a symbol of the magic, hope and beauty of the human imagination.

Art is a deception that creates real emotions – a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.

The power of faith can be a strong force, but the power of knowing is even stronger. ☥

Most tales carry a kernel of truth, else they’re soon forgotten.

Of course you don’t believe in fairies. You’re fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn’t...

its odd to be a writer, you hear someone’s experience and you stash it away in some tiny part of your memory and you go on your way again, only to find; in a few...

enthroned himself as the omnipotent and infallible monarch of his personal Magic Kingdom.

She squinted at his nametag. Her eyes weren’t quite working. “What’s your name?” “Stig.””Stick?” she asked, half ready to believe it. He shook his head and pointed his long index finger at the name stitched...

Are you there? I call for you.I’ve been calling your name, Searching every place in my mind to find you,I’ve lost count of the days, the hours, minutes, and seconds.The world that looked so vast...

…there’s no magic in places. Only people, and precious little of that; less and less the older you get.

People so often loose sight of the magic in life once they understand how it works.

Orthodoxy means not thinking – not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.” At the same time she notes that the left-hand path is the ‘way of action’. It is not about intellectual contemplation, or worse,...

Magic fucking phone.

Was he a real goblin? A minute ago Ben would have scoffed at the prospect, but then came the dragon.

Do you believe in magic?Tell me if you doI believe in magicHow about you?

You should never turn down the offer of another man’s story,’ the fox persisted, moving off a little further into the trees ahead. ‘Stories are the only thing that separates us from the animals after...

The magic that turns dreams into reality is YOU! When you are inspired by a dream, create a good plan; that turns it into a goal. Then, live your life in a way that will...

The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like sticky plaster-dust. (House-cleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If...

We had the kind of conversations that only great friends can ever share. They were touched with magic.

Gregor werd nog roder. En toen werd hij groen. Ik knipperde een paar keer met mijn ogen, maar hij was nog steeds groen, met rode ogen. Net de Hulk: hij werd steeds groener en griezeliger...

I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover innkeepers, postillions, officials, burghers, potboys, and all kinds and sorts of ladies whose...

You really are lovely, Drusilla.” The timbre of Lafitte’s voice shivered down my spine, and I fought the urge to check out the biceps underneath that linen shirt. Holy crap. This was just wrong. I...

It’s rude to stare,” said the troll. Its mouth opened with a little crest of foam, and shut again in exactly the same way that water closes over a stone. “Is it? Why?” asked Rincewind....