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Jane YolenTouch Magic: Fantasy

Magic is the fifth fundamental force and is even more mysterious than gravity, which is really sayin...

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Love and magic are like oil and water--they just don't mix.

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Jasper FfordeThe Last Dragonslayer

But that was what research and development were like. Full of semi-triumphs and perplexing unforesee...

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magic swirls about us like an invisible fog of energy that can be tapped by those gifted enough, usi...

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Jasper FfordeThe Song of the Quarkbeast

I liked him, but since his particular field of interest was Remote Suggestion--the skill of projecti...

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Jasper FfordeThe Song of the Quarkbeast

Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.

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Jasper FfordeThe Well of Lost Plots

The magic in performing as an entertaining ventriloquist happens when the characters come to life an...

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Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you ...

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See, those who wield the primordial forces of creation have a long-running grudge with physics.

Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other ...

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My laboratory,' I said, experimentally, drawing out each syllable. 'Why is it that saying it like th...

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Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare ...

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You need to know where to go,' Sanya said.'Yes,''And you are going to consult four large pizzas for ...

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Like I said, magic comes from life, and especially from emotions. They're a source of the same intan...

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Do you really think you can win?''Yeah. Hell, Ortega is only the third or fourth most disturbing thi...

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...The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue.This, all by itself, is enough to really ruin...

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I didn't want to believe that killing was deep inside of me. I didn't want to think about the part o...

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Magic comes from the heart, from your feelings, your deepest expressions of desire. That's why black...

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Technically,' I said, "I'm not breaking any of the Laws of Magic. I'm not robbing you of your will, ...

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I love you." Why it worked right then, why the webbing of my godmother's spell frayed as though the ...

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One ravishing dark-haired beauty wearing leather pants and strategically applied electrical tape, st...

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A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There ...

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Right,' Thomas said. 'Where are we headed?''To where they treat me like royalty,' I said.'We're goin...

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... They paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip a...

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Magic. It can get a guy killed.

It's tough for magic to argue with physics, most of the time.

Sometimes the most remarkable things seem commonplace. I mean, when you think about it, jet travel i...

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It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.

You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.

At home I walked through a haze of belongings that knew, at least vaguely, who they belonged to. Gra...

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Jo WaltonAmong Others

Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, an...

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It isn't really magic, except that it is. It's not magic that reaches into the world ands changes th...

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Jo WaltonAmong Others

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

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Jo WaltonAmong Others

You can never be sure where you are with magic.

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Jo WaltonAmong Others

I wish magic was more dramatic

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Jo WaltonAmong Others

magic can make things happen before you do it. It can make things have happened.

You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen...

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Jo WaltonAmong Others

You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen...

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Jo WaltonAmong Others

I'm so glad I have my own copy. I can read them again and again. I can read them again and again on ...

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

You are aware of only one unrest;Oh, never learn to know the other!Two souls, alas, are dwelling in ...

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Once upon a time there was a young prince who believed in all things but three. He did not believe i...

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Maybe Harry Potter is real and you're not.

Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings,Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,Empty the haunted air, ...

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Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Bab...

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I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitiv...

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This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is prepar...

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John SteinbeckThe Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in your...

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Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society t...

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He felt a wonderful certainty. The impossible, he thought, the impossible is about to happen again.

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Kate DiCamilloThe Magician's Elephant

But that is impossible," said Peter."Magic is always impossible," said the magician. "It begins with...

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What is?', he said. 'What if?' is a question that belongs to magic.

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Kate DiCamilloThe Magician's Elephant

Science is magic that works.

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

It's a bird of some sort. It's like a duck, only I never saw a duck have so many colors."The bird sw...

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The Glass Cat is one of the most curious creatures in all Oz. It was made by a famous magician named...

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All magic is unnatural, and for that reason is to be feared and avoided ~ The Scarecrow

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L. Frank BaumThe Marvelous Land of Oz

Nobody gets in to see the wizard. Not nobody.

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L. Frank BaumThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The wonderful wizard of Oz - when was a child I loved the movie and I read the book when I got older...

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L. Frank BaumW.W. Denslow

Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.

Out last chance is a cat's magic sight. We are doomed.

You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem an...

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But Gemma, you could change the world.""That should take far more than my power," I say."True. But c...

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To each his own magic.

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Libba BrayThe Sweet Far Thing

Two things never mix: one is enchantments and the other is meddling with them.

Over and over. They be making me remember everythings. Me old songs, they just be natural. But now t...

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Lois LowryGathering Blue

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make ou...

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Adam stopped by one of the beasts near the front; its shoulder was taller than him, its great skull ...

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One day a wolf bit a man and the man caught it. Magic or science, it's all the same. The only thing ...

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Being the Magician isn't about being powerful when you have things and useless when you don't," Pers...

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As they walked, a sudden rush of wind hurled low across the grass, bringing with it the scent of mov...

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Maggie StiefvaterThe Dream Thieves

Gansey always thought that, after dark, it felt like anything could happen. At night, Henrietta felt...

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Somewhere along the way, during this hunt for Glendower, he'd forgotten to notice how much magic the...

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If one squinted into Cabeswater long enough, in the right way, one could see secrets dart between th...

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If one squinted in Cabeswater long enough, in the right way, one could see secrets dart between the ...

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I don't want to lose my fitness. I'm 45. I have two babies. I've got a long way to go and I want to ...

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Writing was the only thing that populated my life and made it magic.

A part of every life, even a life meriting very little regard, is spent in searching out the reasons...

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Pushing magic toward the candle, I willed it to light. Nothing happened.Irys made a strangled sound ...

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A spiritual reinterpretation of events gives us miraculous authority to command the winds, to part t...

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Marianne WilliamsonTears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment

Music is the strongest form of magic.

I use the word mystery,rather than magic.I love magic.something magic was always going to happen. Wh...

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Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. But sometimes the will must be abandoned. The se...

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Time travel is such a magic concept.

Sometimes, it seemed, the business of a Witch or a Godmother was not so much using magic as knowing ...

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...for a country whose people ceased to believe in magic soon lost much of their ability to imagine ...

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Mercedes LackeyThe Fairy Godmother

Kethry had once described summoning as being “like balancing on a rooftree while screaming an epic p...

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I agreed to keep the cards a secret and asked my grandmother if she believed in magic. She said she ...

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The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what...

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Michael ChabonThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to ...

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In ancient Greece, the word for "cook," "butcher," and "priest" was the same -- mageiros -- and the ...

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Michael PollanCooked: A Natural History of Transformation

The bride waits here," she said, running her hands along her hair, taking in her image but seeming t...

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Mitch AlbomThe Five People You Meet in Heaven

That's the beginning of magic. Let your imagination run and follow it.

Kir stood close to his father, watching. He seemed, Peri realized, finally becalmed; already he look...

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This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at tec...

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There's a thing that happens in Hollywood, when you hand in a script with magic in it, and the peopl...

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It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.

Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? ...

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