#magic

It's just like any relationship," Raelin told him with a grin, while Aldri practiced over and over again. "You need to coax her, persuade her, impress her, not knock her over the head with a mallet. Sometimes, for complicated things, you even need to grovel a little—but I'll teach you that later, some of the syllables in Faerilíca can take weeks to learn correctly. For now, keep trying to catch her eye in silence." "But magic is only converted energy and emotion," Aldri reminded him. "I already possess it, I only need to use it." "And just how do you want to take ten minutes' running energy or your liking for the color blue, and throw it out in front of you as an arrow-stopping shield, hm? ↗

— Alexis Steinhauer

#energy #magic #relationship

The Internet has always been, and always will be, a magic box. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#been #box #internet #magic #will

You know, magic markets don't appear all the time, so you take advantage of them. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#appear #know #magic #markets #take

I've said this so many times but there's a magic when you have a really good actor in a really good makeup. ↗

— Rick Baker

#good #good actor #i #magic #makeup

I just thought it was magic that you could stick a bit of paper in some coffee-type liquid and a picture comes out. ↗