#magic

A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#exist #explore #greater #magic #offers

For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic. ↗

— James Broughton

#itself #magic #me #out #poem

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#cut #dreams #familiar #his #indians

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#black #black magic #casual #curses #effective

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#about #blooming #dreaming #enjoying #garden

I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible. ↗

— David Copperfield

#i #magic #quite #reprehensible #revealing

i'm your enemy, meghan. never forget that. if Mab tells me to kill you in front of the entire court, it's my duty to obey. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#magic #romance #duty

The King had advertised the old magic tea set, but for some reason, no one wanted sugar teeth that could gouge their eyes out. ↗

— Heather Dixon

#magic #advertising

He goes directly to the ballroom, making his way to the center of the dance floor. He takes Celia’s arm, spinning her away from Herr Thiessen. Marco pulls her to him in an emerald embrace, so close that no one distinction remains between where his suite ends and her gown begins. To Celia there is suddenly no one else in the room as he holds her in his arms. But before she can vocalize her surprise, his lips close over hers and she is lost in wordless bliss. Marco kisses her as though they are the only two people in the world. The air swirls in a tempest around them, blowing open the glass doors to the garden with a tangle of billowing curtains. Every eye in the ballroom turns in their direction. And then he releases her and walks away. By the time Marco leaves the room, almost everyone has forgotten the incident entirely. It is replaced by a momentary confusion that is blamed on the heat or the excessive amounts of champagne. Herr Thiessen cannot recall why Celia has suddenly stopped dancing, or when her gown has shifted to its current deep green. “Is something wrong?” he asks, when he realizes that she is trembling. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#magic #marco-celia #blame

You know anything about investigative work?" "Sure. Annoy the people involved until the guilt party tries to make you go away. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#ilona-andrews #investigative-work #kate #kate-daniels #magic-bites