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Magic Quotes


"The stranded Daoine Sidhe knights of the Dark Court gathered at the ring of ancient standing stones under the pale light of the harvest moon. Whenever the Daoine Sidhe gathered, they raised the natural energies of the world around them."


"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water."



"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 bulging in places where it shouldn't have places. There were rooms containing rooms which, if you entered them, turned out to contain the room you'd started with, which can be a problem if you are in a conga line."


"If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens."


"It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade."


"In this kind of situation, we tend to cling to his convictions, we believe that, by magic, we are going to recover. Then we agree to drive less good cars and we are fatally more exposed. It is what finally happened to me with Ensign."



"Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around."


"A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic."


"But we were really locked in to that kind of format, and as the '90s wore on, it became for me more solidified, in that sense that there weren't as many of those magical shows that were just magic all the way through as there had been in earlier years."


"Magic is only magic when don't know 'how', when you know it, it can be experienced everyday!!!"


"Know your magic, trust your magic, use your magic and know that you are a manifestation of life's magic."


"Magic of the nights is always much impressive than the magic of the days!"


"If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place."


"You want me to go back into that house protected by a magic sticky note?"Don't even start, I told him. "It's working. If it weren't working, you couldn't drag me into that place."What did you write on here? 'Don't die'?"No, I wrote, 'Don't be an a-hole!' I headed for the house."On yours or mine?"On yours."Well, in that case, your magic isn't working. I'm still an asshole."



"It's not sometimes realistic to think that something magical can happen, but I think I look for the magic."


"In the art of magic be quick of sleight and slow of climax."


"There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond."


"If one squinted into Cabeswater long enough, in the right way, one could see secrets dart between the trees. The shadows of horned animals that never appeared. The winking lights of another summer's fireflies. The rushing sound of many wings, the sound of a massive flock always out of sight. Magic."



"I'm shorter, I don't have as many freckles as Ron, and I can't do magic."



"A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING.People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days' as if this signified some kind of moral worth, and perhaps it did, but the last thing you wanted a witch to do was get bored and start making her own amusements, because witches sometimes had famously erratic ideas about what was amusing."


"During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions."


"That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is."


"One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers."


"So many wish for magic so many beg for fame, but if you could manifest anything you want life would be a boring game."



"The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a mage. You have learned the most important lesson."



"And that's what I don't like about magic, Captain. 'cos it's *magic*. You can't ask questions, it's magic. It doesn't explain anything, it's magic. You don't know where it comes from, it's magic! That's what I don't like about magic, it does everything by magic!"


"I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago."


"Any impossibility turned into a possibility is magic."


"Magic is in simplicity. Simplicity is the ultimate expression of beauty."



"It occurred to Keth for the first time that perhaps magic wasn't simply a matter of fires, lightning, and power in the air, if spoken words could also create such a transformation."


"Magic is the art of thinking, not strength or language."
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