Humanity does not suffer from the disease of wrong beliefs but humanity suffers from the contagious nature of the lack of belief. If you have no magic with you it is not because magic does...

Time is the only magic, he said, “And Marids swim through time like the sea. Think: if you hurt yourself, and I bandage it, and after weeks and weeks it gets well and there’s no...

When you find that one book, that one that makes you tingle. It’s almost like you found a little piece of magic.

Don’t be stupid, it’s a flying house!

Blessed are the powers that grant me magic.I promise to use their gift well.To help mend my world.To help mend all worlds.And should I forget to mend,Should I refuse to mend,Still I will rememberTo do...

Magic is in her just as it is in Dickon,” said Colin. “It makes her think of ways to do things – nice things.

One of the crafty tricks Satan plays is to guide a person safely on the wrong path. When your safety is the priority, you may be on the wrong path but may not know.

…and said grace in Welsh. It was all rolling, thundering language.

At least he possessed enough sense to recognize how little sense he possessed.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

If I were a magician, I’d hand out broken compasses. It’s all about misdirection.

Glitter and streamers of light swirled aroundus, and a chorus of tiny voices sang out a single note. Iwinced, knowing there was only one person who thought anormal entrance, like walking through a door, wasn’t...

The would-be sorcerer alone has faith in the efficacy of pure knowledge; rational people know that things act of themselves or not at all.

Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming up with solutions to ridiculous problems that aren’t ever going to happen. Except...

The sonic screwdriver from Doctor Who might have worked, having been canonically established as being ineffective on wood, but nobody had ever figured out how to use the controls on the blasted thing.

I wish magic was more dramatic

…There is a tale, as old as the Ancient Ones themselves, that one would arise who has that gift: to sing all the chantments, the high notes and the low, the swift rhythms and the...

… perhaps the clock hands had become so tired of going in the same direction year after year that they had suddenly begun to go the opposite way instead…

In her dance, she controlled the bright paper birds with invisible wires and threads. She played the human: heavy, tied to earth. Her dances weren’t pretty or delightful, but they were magical, […] They called...

Wizard’s work was a pleasure and a madness. No wonder the university magicians rambled at times like daft bastards.

It happens like this. “One day you meet someone and for some inexplicable reason, you feel more connected to this stranger than anyone else–closer to them than your closest family. Perhaps this person carries within...

Time, you don’t know, looks like magic.

That one thing you do give up when you get married is that magic moment of meeting someone, and the sparks and the spontaneity.

You don’t find Truth, but Truth finds you. ☥

Over and over. They be making me remember everythings. Me old songs, they just be natural. But now they be stuffing new things into me and this poor head hurts horrid.

Mr. Charles Dickens was serializing his novel Oliver Twist; Mr. Draper had just taken the first photograph of the moon, freezing her pale face on cold paper; Mr. Morse had recently announced a way of...

To go home, you usually will use that door over there.” I looked where Trom gestured and saw empty space.”What door?” I asked.”Oh, sorry. Until you go through your closet door for the first time...

Love Darren? Of course not. Love is for fools not smart enough to see the path in front of them. That’s the difference between you and I, Ryiah. I see the truth and accept Darren...

It is possible to induce incorrect notions of cause and effect in most people in just a few minutes. All that is necessary is to expose them to rewards which they believe they are generating...

I remained silent, adrift in a torrent of mixed feelings. The Binding urged me to curl up in his embrace, to lose myself in his scent and surrender to his lips again; however, my own...

I thought that you would be frozen in awe when you found the sequence, when you heard a bird’s song repeating my Morse code, my cry for help, my S.O.S, when you saw the same...

Cery: So, Hem, tell me why I shouldn’t see how many holes I need to make before you start leaking money?

This time he had no choice but to look into her eyes. He did not look away. It was the bright fierce gaze that she remembered so vividly from their first meeting. He’d reminded her...

Do not pay attention to my cousins. Every family needs a couple idiots and we keep them around for entertainment.

What would this have been, if it had more power to give?””This may come as a surprise to you,” he replied dryly, “But I am not an Ancient. Nor am I, human philosophy aside, a...

It’s hard to get motivated fixing a compile-time syntax error when you can buy a powder that turns a house into a monster.

No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a...

It’s the first time we’ve beaten Hotchkiss in my lifetime. We are hot right now. There’s no magic wand. These kids are talented, and they’ve started to believe.

Tea is just an excuse.i am drinking this sunset, this evening.and you.

Someone smashed a flutterfler and without even thinking she touched her Stone and used Wyrd to piece its broken body back together. She filled its empty vessels with dreams and it became the stuff it...

She went to the window. A fine sheen of sugary frost covered everything in sight, and white smoke rose from chimneys in the valley below the resort town. The window opened to a rush of...

Life has this beautiful way of opening doors when you least expect it. How thy open is sometimes never known. But does that not only further justify the magic and the possibility to the thought,...

The world was all magic, and he had a special bottle of it in his right hand.

Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn’t. But then again, what does?

I looked into her eyes, and saw my own staring back, the same peculiar shade, pale grey, flecked with yellow, rimmed with black. Now I knew the nature of her debt. It had weighed on...

Isn’t it strange that when we fall in love, this great dream we have, this extraordinary disease, the only thing in which either one of us is interested, it’s inevitably with some perfectly ordinary drip...

what does it have to do with my father suddenly thinking he can raise the dead?

How do you weigh a soul?Is it heavy with love or hate?Does it deny the things it’s done?Does it even remember its own name?Does it miss those it has loved?Does it long for the life...

Squinting in the darkness Anya could just make out a strange curving symbol scratched into the bark. Baba Zosia scored a line through it, disfiguring the symbol. Anya felt something in the air change and...

Make no mistake in denying it…magic is real. It happens when you touch her hand for the first time and your palms mysteriously sweat, it transpires within those sustained seconds just before your lips touches...