#magic

At its most elemental, a spell is no more than a recipe for change. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#change

I learned that the day "The Viper's Drag" slipped from between my fingers. But whatever might be lost or broken or forgotten is nothing compared to the miraculous rebirth that occurs every time the needle hits the groove. Here is Fats Waller Himself, not dead but present, so present that he overwhelms the well-ordered precincts of the living room. The sound sprawls. What vibrates here has more life than any room. ↗

— Geoffrey O'Brien

#musical-favorites #rebirth #vinyl-records #life

Change & transformation. That kind of magic. ↗

— Julia Green

#life #magic #change

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#enough #get #holding #holding on #ideas

The room was full of magical objects, animals, photographs, paintings, strange looking plants and many flying books. I only found this room a few days ago and it seems that it keeps changing every time I come. ↗

— Magda M. Olchawska

#children-books #fairies #illustrated-books #kids #kids-books

How is it that I could run into a gunfight against overwhelming odds and put myself between bullets and civilians, but I couldn't scrape together enough courage to speak to the one person who mattered the most to me? ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#gunmetal-magic #raphael #courage

Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack, all dressed in black, black, black. She has a knife, knife, knife, stuck in her back, back, back. She cannot breathe, breathe, breathe. She cannot cry, cry, cry. Thats why she begs, begs, begs. She begs to die, die ,die.. ↗

— Laurie Faria Stolarz

#death #magic #morbid #song #twisted

The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#flat-earth #flesh #magician #soul #tanith-lee

Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes. ↗

— Eileen Wilks

#death-magic #eileen-wilks #fear #lupi #paranormal

Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy. ↗

— Walt Disney Company

#disney #disneyland #dreams #fantasy #hearts