3,321 Quotes About Magic

... They paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip and unique. May be it's my lack of fashion sense talking, but I thought they should have held out for one of those gorillas who has learned to paint. The results would have been of similar quality, and they could have paid in fresh produce.- Harry Dresden, Small Favor, Jim Butcher

Don't be stupid, it's a flying house!

Visualization is the main ingredient of magic, inner peace: power.

Magic only happens to those who can make it real in their imaginations.

-Entender con la imaginación -solía decir Ombric- es conquistar los límites del tiempo y del espacio.

That’s because the true power of magic is not to send random objects careening off across the room. The true power of magic is to make ordinary people bow.

I take it all: the world and his wife, the moon on a stick and the stars to sprinkle like salt on my potatoes.

Hadn’t my family been stupid to breed for magic? Someone like Hiss had been bound to pop up eventually. And then you got a not-particularly-wise, not-particularly-happy little boy who couldn’t be trusted with a sharp knife at the dinner table in case he accidentally cut his own hand open, and yet who had the power to defeat an army. How else could this have ended, other than with him being used as a weapon against us?

There's a reason why books are shaped like doors; you open them up, they take you somewhere else. The mind is a strange place and what's inside yours might also be inside someone else's, or may overlap into another place entirely. The only way to know is to read, imagine, and follow the secrets that unfold in Anna Tizard's Deeply Weird fiction.Dip a toe. Dive in. Don’t look back.