The difference between my darkness and your darkness is that I can look at my own badness in the face and accept its existence while you are busy covering your mirror with a white linen...

The darkness was the foundation that everything else was built on. The garden where the universe grew. The simplest, most basic thing in existence. And it was spectacular.

The light from his torch painted the barren forest in shades of his own reflection, black-haired, gray-eyed and pale for want of a touch. He pulled his cloak close, unable to determine which made him...

If you are a magician then you can always do a lot more magic than you think you can.

Ferocity is a trait highly regarded amongst us.

Well then, take this thought with you for the dark hours to come: It is a ludicrous fiction that love conquers all, but it can, in fact, conquer quite a lot. I am Iason of...

Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely a matter of chance in any case had left it...

One ravishing dark-haired beauty wearing leather pants and strategically applied electrical tape, stared hard at me and, when she saw me looking, licked her lips very, very slowly. She trailed a fingertip over her chin,...

As a magician you will miss the hundred percent of the applause if you don’t perform.

Many years ago, plunging was discovered when the moon was in two halves- it’s all about dreams, you see

I have never believed in the Wizard of Oz theory of consulting, that I am all-knowing and all-seeing, and that everyone around me is kind of a backbencher.

We learned the seven traditional ways to make words unclear.””Seven? That many? Which was the most effective?””Poor grammar skills.

The genius of a great magician is as impressive as the genius of a great scientist.

Doubt is unacceptable and should not enter you; it is merely evil trying to divert you and increase the difficulty of your task

No matter what danger you might face,” the wizard resumed, “within this book is a magical solution.”I did as Ebenzum bade, opening to a page titled “EZ Wizard’s Index.” I scanned quickly down the righthand...

Let us fly, Madam Harpy Queen. Show me how you dance on the wind.

A magician must always value his magic effects more than himself, because after few years audience may not remember his name but they will remember his magic effect.

My path will weaveThe way you sayThere is no doubtYou’ll create the way

Seventeen, eh!” said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred.”Six years to the day we met, Harry, d’yeh remember it?””Vaguely,” said Harry, grinning up at him. “Didn’t you smash down the...

Pick up a thing,” [Wizard Kadmeion’s]mother would say. “Touch, smell, and taste it. Listen to its nonsense. Then put the funny thing in its proper place.

Magicians made magic but critics made it tricks.

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...

Working hard is important, but there’s something that matters even more. Believing in yourself. Think of it this way: Every great wizard in history has started out as nothing more than we are now. Students....

Life is sweet absurdity, Sir Wizard. Laugh your way through it.

Quigley (to Duane): My business is not your business, whether you ask after it in Tainish or interpretive dance.

She did not want to know what charmhe had used to make her love him so deeply. She did not want to know it wasn’t real.

I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one.

Observing the wizard’s high magic was his biggest privilege as Kadmeion’s assistant.

Duane: We are not enemies! We are Aldishmen! Aumut vaosa — six years I’ve longed for a Tainish word from a friendly tongue!Quigley: Keep longing.

But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard’s power...

A boy and a girl, fated to rule all. Two will rise, and One will fall.

Duh.

Never let the legend die

I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.

No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world.

I did the ‘Wizard of Oz’ in third grade, and I was a witch.

Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.

be-careful for what you wish for it may be seeking you as well…

I look at the others, simpering courtiers and visiting dignitaries, all unsuspecting of what is to come. A merciful man should spare them, but I had mercy cut out of me at a young age.

Bags!

She asked me if I had a light. I asked her if she was a wizard. She said no, so I felt safe in pulling out my pocket dragon.

A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open.

Nobody gets in to see the wizard. Not nobody.

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.

We do not believe that light exists in spite of darkness. We believe that light exists because of it.

Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived happily ever after, of a world where there is a wizard to give...

A magician reveals himself not only by the magic he presents but also by the respect and entertainment he gives to his audience.

Unicorns know naught of shame, or need, or doubt, or debt;But mortals, as you may have noticed, take what they can get.