Magic Quotes - Page 9

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.

Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the Universe together into one garment for us.

The thinnest thing in the world is the border between good and evil... my next The Opposite Of Magic.

Then it is not uncommon for a man to become lost in a single letter, or hear a voice rise up from the silent page.

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. Magic, then, and a deep form of it.

Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else's story.

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

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

I'll make my own magic'" - A.D.Y.Howle

I'll make my own magic

It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.

Pushing magic toward the candle, I willed it to light. Nothing happened.

Irys made a strangled sound and the candle burned. “Are you directing your magic to the candle?”

“Yes. Why?”

“You just ordered me to light the candle for you,” Irys said in exasperation. “And I did it.

Never grow up!

What do you do,' said Jean, 'with, ah, "ungifted" children when you have them?'
'Cherish them and raise them, you imbecile. Most of them end up working for us, in Karthain and elsewhere. What did you think we'd do, burn them on a pyre?'
'Forget I asked

Time is magic.

All magic is time.

Time is magic, magic is time.