Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary and dungeons for the overbold…The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of...

Healthy curiosity is a great key in innovation.

I turned to leave and paused before the gap in the ruined wall. “One last thing, Your Majesty. I’d like a name I can put into my report, something shorter than typing out ‘The Leader...

What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object–but a human thought caught and bound, made concrete through sacred technology....

How?’ a still shaken Nechtan demanded.Britha had always hated to give magic as an answer. More often than not, another answer could be found.‘Magic,’ she said.

Learner, we are all gifted.

Tut! Magic, indeed! As if there weren’t marvels enough without magic. Pictures traveling by telephone, and men bouncing up and down on the moon? Trees and floors and children growing? There are your real marvels.

Yeah, right. Instead of watching TV, we’ll practice our weird magical powers. Great. What’s next? Zooming around on flying carpets?

I didn’t want to believe that killing was deep inside of me. I didn’t want to think about the part of me that took a dark joy in gathering all the power it could and...

Lovers are the coolest their hearts beat the best & they kiss magic as hell

And I did it.

The magic stuff was almost like light relief in a way, but of course it’s also quite sinister, … I learnt a couple of tricks, and I stole a line from a guy who was...

He’s got a little magic going on right now. But he goes to the net hard and he competes hard, and that’s what he does. He just drives the net every time. We know, and...

The logic behind magic is that we create what we are imagining.

Julia heard from her mummy that fairies were gentle creatures with singing voices just like the mermaids.

First of all, writing at best – certainly fiction writing – more and more I think is magic.

Earth or Fillory, did it even matter? What was the huge conundrum? Everywhere you looked there was so much richness, you could never exhaust it.

Words are more dangerous than swords and guns. They reach further and hurt deeper.

An optimist and a gentleman, I like that in my men.

The problem with magic was that it made her feel very alone.

I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants of shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you. A place where people die and music disintegrates and...

So why not live with the magic? Be a kid again and believe in the fantastical. Life is more fun with a little smoke and mirrors.

Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician.

Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of...

During an especially noisy elementary school assembly I witnessed a common marvel. Someone spoke,”Once upon a time…” into the mic, and the room hushed. Such magic never ceases to amaze me.

If you feel afraid of magic, then you’ve been enchanted.

Kundalini means, according to Zeena ‘She Who is Hidden,’ and points to the dormant goddess in every human being’s body. While the kundalini force is found in muladharachakra, she hypnotizes humans, like maya herself, and...

Devic MagicWoodland sprites, elves and nymphsWaltz in time take a glimpseFairies hide the forest witMushrooms fly, agarics hit

(Magic head coach Brian Hill) just basically told me before the game that (the trade rumors are) something that I can’t control. He just told me to play for myself and the team.

Every little thing she does is magic.

(reporter interviewing Broadway dancer Tommy Tune:) ‘Do you think that greats like Fred Astaire possessed some kind of magic?'(pause)’No. Magic possesses them’.

No. Not a witch, but something. I can’t explain it. It’s as if magic is your friend,” Ivy continued.

Most of the masses still believe in magic, you know. Spells. Potions. It’s a big business, I am told.

After I see a painting, I go into a room, I close my eyes and I slowly escape into the beauty of the painting. I reflect on the painting, the nuances of the artwork, it’s...

There is an odd quirk in the human mind that makes a fearful man prefer to go quietly to a wicked-looking, gnarled “witch” for a countercharm than to a respectable licensed sorcerer or an accredited...

I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But I say that is great nonsense.

Since when do wizards wear robes?” I whispered. “That’s falling into every human stereotype ever created.” Jeezum. Next thing you knew, they’d be waving around magic wands.”The First Elder thought they’d look more intimidating in...

The longer Ellen Cherry thought about it, the more convinced she became that the mission of the artist in an overtechnologized, overmasculinized society was to call the old magic back to life.Could it be done?...

raged for three days here in Charn it­self. For three days I looked down upon it from this very spot. I did not use my power till the last of my sol­diers had fallen, and...

Those who spell Magic with a K aren’t.

But it so happens that everything on this planet is, ultimately, irrational; there is not, and cannot be, any reason for the causal connexion of things, if only because our use of the word “reason”...

If Heaven was a summer sky and a TV left on mute, then the Underworld was a starry night and an electric guitar with amps.

I will love you forever,” I murmured, and he stroked the hair off of my forehead.I will hold you to that.” His face was grim and his voice was sober—hetouched my handprint of chaos as...

The true magic of novels dwells within us individually. Each reader will interpret every single character, scene, and metaphor in a slightly different way

By some tear in the wish fabric, or the casting of a prayer, or the falling of some lonely star, the enchanted garden was not lost to me, but lost in me.

I know.” He leaned back, looking into her eyes. “But I’m not going anywhere, Jenny. I’ll fight to stay with you.

If you say that the China Cat might have lost its ear-tips in battle you are the kind of person who always makes difficulties, and you may be quite sure that the kind of splendid...

He said he preferred to feel the earth sing through his feet, and that shoes stopped you from hearing the song of the earth.

What you see is what you get.

White magic or black, it doesn’t make a difference. Natural and artificial? Obsolete distinctions