#magi

Did if feel like jumping off a cliff when he kissed you? I imagine it did. ↗

— Na

#love #risk #taking-a-leap #imagination

Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms—his fun, for it was half made up, as he knew very well; invented, this escapade with the girl; made up, as one makes up the better part of life, he thought—making onself up; making her up; creating an exquisite amusement, and something more. But odd it was, and quite true; all this one could never share—it smashed to atoms. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#imagination #invention #life #truths #imagination

They had picked up Julie's scent hit wolfsbane lost her and found her trail again at the crumbling Highway 23 except it was two hours old and mixed with horse scents. She was hitchhiking. Great. Awesome. At least she always carried a knife with her. When I relayed this to Curran he shrugged and said, "If she kills anybody we'll make it go away. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#ilona-andrews #julie #kate #magic-slays #awesome

I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#events #filled #i #i believe #i believe in

OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are. ↗

— Edgar Bergen

#magic #ok #really #see #who

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open. ↗

— John Berger

#confines #difficulty #dog #dreams #great

I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half. ↗

— Michael Bergin

#believe #fairy #fairy tales #half #how

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#external #fatiguing #imagination #life #make

Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#downward #earth #every #forming #gradually

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. ↗

— Ouida

#cruel #familiarity #kind #magician #ugliness