#magic

Stories of Fantasy are nothing more than the retelling of our own triumphs and sad, sad tragedies ... Tod Langley I have that painted on my office wall and love to stare at it. ↗

— Tod Langley

#inspirational #magic #writer-quotes #inspirational

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#magic #magic-vs-nature #magic-vs-science #nature #power

Those old hypocrites. The talk about killing witches but the Good Book’s full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. What’s that if it’s not good old-fashioned magic? Want a little water into wine? No trouble! How about raising the dead man Lazarus? Just say the word! ↗

— Clive Barker

#clive-barker #days-of-magic-nights-of-war #magic #religion #religion

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#advanced #advanced technology #any #indistinguishable #magic

Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic. ↗

— Robert Bloch

#technology #technology

'Christ, Dresden! You almost got me killed!' 'Don't be a baby. You're fine.' Thomas frowned at me. 'You at least could have told me!' 'I did tell you,' I said. 'I told you at Mac's that I'd give you a ride home, but that I had to run an errand first.' Thomas scowled. 'An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo.' " - Harry Dresden & Thomas Raith, Blood Rites, Jim Butcher ↗

— Jim Butcher

#harry-dresden #magic #paranormal #wizards #christ

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#magic #perception #wonder #wonder

Tris: "I was reading." Sandry: "You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt." Tris: "Then maybe they shouldn't talk to me. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#reading #sandry #talk #tris #magic

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

— Ray Bradbury

#magic #universe #magic

It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#kindness #magic #present