209 Quotes About Magical-realism

Love alone can make a human abandon his heart and home, and love for a handsome fisherman alone can separate a small mermaid from the sea to the point of scooting alone an dry rocky terrain and ignoring the pain and suffering of the land.

Patrickio Aragonés had already impassively survived six assassination attempts,had acquired the habit of dragging his feet which had been flattened out with amallet, his ears buzzed, and his hernia ached at dawn in the winter, and he hadlearned to take off and put on the golden spur as if the straps were tangled upsimply to gain time at audiences muttering God damn it these buckles Flemishblacksmiths make aren't even good for this...

The heat inside me became liquid fire.-Erilyn

As I thought it I willed it into existence.-Erilyn

I noticed a lot of magic realism- Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez and Alice Hoffman. I tugged down Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate, a small book with an art deco cover, and a wave of warmth spread through me- it was one of my favorites, magic realism centered on food and sex. Leafing through the pages, I revisited the pleasure of the reading, feeling myself on a foggy winter day in San Francisco drinking hot chocolate.

Ulysses found himself hopelessly adrift within the confines of a yew-hedge maze, the leaf tips of which were lit by a Communion-wafer moon that rested on the black tongue of night.

We live in a world of unfulfilled fairytales.

fluttering amidst the stars / stands the thin black/ stalk / of a glimmerglass girl /

I tell my sisters: / cultivate loneliness / like you might care for / an orchid, turning it / gently towards the light, / serving it water like wine / aerated, purified, filtered.