I know essentially you’re some kind of enchantress. Maybe you’re still serving your apprenticeship, but you’re an enchantress all right. Probably I’d get used to you in time. Right now, it’s only my demonic will...

Saying good-bye properly afforded me a measure of peace. It was a binding of a different sort, absent of the earth’s power, but still hard proof that there is magic yet in the world.

Believe is a powerful word to see and to say. But that morning, I felt it. And feeling it was the best of all. I knew something wonderful was about to happen to me. I...

Magic isn’t inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people.

Roger’s wand made a crackling noise as he traced it around Winston’s arms, down his waist, and everywhere else.

Respect is a really powerful magic too, you know.

I thought you guys could detect witches.” Jonathan muttered as soon as he got over his shock at seeing two people materialise in front of him. The wiccan sat on the floor, his shoulder being...

The idea of magic being something that is separate from everyday life – known to the magicians but not the ordinary people – still slows down our recognition that it is here, now, of the...

Threshold is where the madness ends and the magic begins.

You only know me as an ordinary human being, with flesh, blood and bones, but there is something about me too hard for you to decipher, for if i let you, you will ever regret...

She said, “Daddy thinks that all the world’s magic is almost evolved out.”I thought of Roebuck Lake, its swamps and sloughs and loblollies and breaks of cypress and cane, its sunken treetops and stobs and...

However, the real beauty is not in the words themselves, but in the listener that has the power to understand them.

There is no such thing as magic. It is a word. A silly, foolish, overused word. There is only your aura…or the Chinese have a better word for it: qi. A life force. An energy....

When he reached his own room again, he found Khloe curled up on his bed, asleep. He stood over her, watching her sleep peacefully for a few moments before taking a deep breath and moving...

In this world in which we live simplicity and kindness are the only magic wands that work wonders

Someday, Ry, you are going to realize who Darren really is. He’s a prince, and he’s only going to break your heart.

He kissed her, and the magic that had been building up steadily around them exploded, raining down in arcs of silver fire that made her half-remember a prophecy from her dreams.One by one, they all...

So why hadn’t he confronted me? Why hadn’t he torn through my lies and forced me to own up that I’d caught him in a Binding? It wasn’t like he could just brush this off....

‘It would be great not to have to deal with any of this. When I found out, I wished Killian could have wiped my memories so I wouldn’t have to know that all this shit...

As he hurtled through the air Simon saw the boiling emerald fire hit his protective spell and explode into sickly green sparks, inches from where Falamir was still crouched, oblivious to the chaos unfolding around...

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

There’s nothing sweet about me, love,” he said.

As if grabbed by strong arms that were not there, he felt himself being lifted. Raising skyward and spinning, he fought to regain orientation. The winds were holding him and carrying him higher. Spinning him...

I think that thinking of our material universe, the one we perceive with our sense, as the only thing is not only foolish, it is arrogant. As well as, if I may add, in contradiction...

My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set.

I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.

But a smell shivered him awake.It was a scent as old as the world. It was a hundred aromas of a thousand places. It was the tang of pine needles. It was the musk of...

A song she heardOf cold that gathersLike winter’s tongueAmong the shadowsIt rose like blacknessIn the skyThat on volcano’sVomit riseA Stone of ruinFrom burn to chillLike black moonriseHer voice fell still…

If you look hard and long, you can find us. If you listen hard and long, you can hear any of us, call any of us that you wish.

Incidentally, the world is magical.Magic is simply what’s off our human scale… at the moment.

Submitted for your approval–the curious case of Colleen O’Brien and thegorgeous time traveling Scot who landed in her living room.” – Rod Serling

But can’t you just wave your hand and make all the dirt fly away, then?” […]”That works, but only if you wave them about on the floor with a scrubbing brush.

Go away, you goddamn clown!” Jenny ordered. But Benny the Clown continued to pull out handkerchief after handkerchief. Five…ten…fifteen…then… That’s not a handkerchief.

There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and...

Magic is logic.

Narsh!

Sweet Jesus,” he whispered, trailing kisses along the line of her jaw. “Our excavation must have freed some deep, dark ancient enchantment from the earth. How else to explain this magic?

He said he’d heard the sound of one hand clapping. He said, once his mind took in the wondrous no-sound of holy oneness, the empty echo of eternal bliss, he was never the same. He...

Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched by the Goddess’s magick…

Squeeze your eyes closed, as tight as you can, and think of all your favorite autumns, crisp and perfect, all bound up together like a stack of cards. That is what it is like, the...

There’s a very, very great misconception among people who read about DNA technology that it’s a magic bullet and it’s not. It’s a very powerful tool and probably the most powerful in terms of human...

The King had advertised the old magic tea set, but for some reason, no one wanted sugar teeth that could gouge their eyes out.

Because now, the magic is everywhere.

The sun is shining – the sun is shining. That is the Magic. The flower are growing – the roots are stirring. That is the Magic. Being alive is the Magic – being strong is...

this was a moment of magic revealing to us all, for a few moments, a hidden world of grace and wonder beyond the one of which our eyes told us, a world that no words...

There are those amongst us who have erred, deeply and significantly. Who have wounded the world and broken themselves. The worst of them lose themselves in their errors. The best of them crawl back, one...

Think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new...

I’m so alive.As I stand facing the beauty of the never-ending Pacific Ocean, a late afternoon breeze blows down from the hills behind. As always, it is a beautiful day. The sun is making its...

Cap’n and I are available for birthday parties at reasonable prices. He does magic, and I make your cake disappear.

Is something wrong?” he asks, when he realizes that she is trembling.