When you make a film, if you are an insider, you’re usually the last person to know that your film is not right. But when you are an outsider, you have a little more objectivity.I...

The tension between what is, and what we dream of, is important. Not to discount what we have, but to hold onto that middle ground, because it’s in there that the magic happens.

It’s not any different until we get a significant lead and it becomes different when our magic number is zero. Then it becomes different. Then you can take a deep breath and concentrate on the...

When you’re writing, you’re creating something out of nothing … A successful piece of writing is like doing a successful piece of magic.”[As quoted on WritersServices, 6 March 2012]

I didn’t dare put down the staff with Etienne popping in and out like a half-burned, bloodsucking whack-a-mole.

I’ve long believed that the gods give us the music we’re supposed to hear at the times we’re supposed to hear it, because all music, even lyrical and regardless of language performed in, is in...

…on a number of occasions this book has made reference to magic, and each time you’ve shaken your head, muttering such criticisms as “What does he mean by ‘magic’ anyhow? It’s embarrassing to find a...

As he rose to his feet he noticed that he was neither dripping nor panting for breath as anyone would expect after being under water. His clothes were perfectly dry. He was standing by the...

make money, buy houses, take trips around the world? Why else do they dwindle into a little circle of close friends, a farm upstate, and become in the end mere businessmen, shop-owners, decorators who like...

I’ve often thought that there isn’t any “I” at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a...

To be content, horse people need only a horse, or, lacking that, someone else who loves horses with whom they can talk. It was always that way with my grandfather. He took me places just...

Magic is magic as long as humans can explain it logically!

One misspoken word and the world will no longer know you. Mark Andrew Ramsay

Sometimes, the smallest moments in your life have the greatest impact. They soar straight into a place deep inside you, and resonate with the very core of your heart, sinking deep into your memory, to...

Mere words cannot defeat a true hero. Unless they happen to be the words to some sort of Instant Death Spell. Magic is scary.

perhaps,thought Felix,that’s what magic is–physics with a different twist to it.my world just hasn’t discovered the twist.

Es perfectamente imaginable que el esplendor de la vida está dispuesto, siempre en toda plenitud, alrededor de cada uno, pero cubierto de un velo, en las profundidades, invisible muy lejos. Sin embargo está ahí, no...

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

Then sudden Felagund there swayingSang in answer a song of staying,Resisting, battling against power,Of secrets kept, strength like a tower,And trust unbroken, freedom, escape;Of changing and of shifting shape,Of snares eluded, broken traps,The prison opening,...

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

I saw pearls in her mouth and the velvet cushion of her tongue and I heard the magic words come out of her.

Poor Amy. I could tell she was suffering. Poor Thing. Life was so tough for the rich, beautiful and magical.

I want to open a broken marriage repair shop. I’m not a counselor or psychologist, but I am a fan of the magical bonding that occurs between two people when duct tape binds them together...

Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don’t, who will?

There was something in the moonlight tonight. It was stroking the stonework and spires, leaning into cracks between the cobblestones, caressing the stained-glass windows. She felt her heart lift with magic.

This is the Self-Esteem Looking-Glass. You have to look in the mirror and compliment yourself.

I love you.” Why it worked right then, why the webbing of my godmother’s spell frayed as though the words had been an open flame, I don’t know. I haven’t found any explanation for it....

There is only one way to find out.

Magic will find those with pure hearts, even when all seems lost.

Hannah Rose Brown was not quite 13 years old when she discovered her family was cursed. THE PUZZLE RING

Understand that a lot of the things we need to do to prepare are not related to magic bullets.

I decide that we could always indulge ourselves later. First, I had a soul-eating stone of power to poke with a stick.

But our forest is sacred & magical with many unusual creatures & plants.We don’t want people to destroy everything!

Her eyes were like the sea before a storm on the Carolina coast.

The world was fucking awful. It was a wretched, desolate place, a desert of meaninglessness, a heartless wasteland, where horrific things happened all the time for no reason and nothing good lasted for long.He’d been...

Light and Darkness. One cannot exist without the other. There is no true Master, without the power of balance. ☥

Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and...

Ophelia,’ said the boy. He said it very quietly. She didn’t like the way he said that at all. He sounded sad and as though he expected more from her.’And how do you know my...

What if things happened to you—special, magic things—because you’d been preparing for them?

But magic is like pizza: even when it’s bad, it’s pretty good.

action” being the operative word. Witches are midwives to metamorphosis. They are magical women, and they, quite literally, change the world.

It is most unlikely. But–here comes the big “but”–not impossible.

Oh. How very clever.”The comparison had left her both impressed and flattered.

There’s a lot of magic between you too, ain’t no denying that. And magic makes forgettin’ hard.

Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cherishing of your identity,...

I am here because I have to be here, as here I am supposed to be! All things should be, and usually are, found in their rightful places. Can you imagine how chaotic the world...

Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books...

It takes five years to have a sellable crop. Two thousand six is the magic year.

That’s the Wildcat I remember.

For me, the most magical truth of this universe is that no magic is required.