209 Quotes About Magical-realism

But sorrow can also be contagious. Fear is different. It isn't as communicable as laughter or sadness, and a good thing too. Fear is almost entirely a lonely thing.

I'd rather have a life of chaos beside you than a life of quietude and stability without you...

You know, it would be much less trouble if you were willing to bat your magic eyelashes.

Everyone needs sisters.

Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks [...] He wonders if the poem of the circus could possibly be bottled.

He looked in her eyes as if trying to tell her he loved her without words. She looked back at him as if to say, I know.

I’m Temple Claybourne, an upright, warm-blooded hairy mammal, Caucasian, skidding into my fourth decade of existence, the progeny of meat-eating Anglo-Saxon tribal chieftains, left-handed, flat of foot, with low cholesterol and a predictably receding hairline, carrying a zero debt load, a nervous driver, nervous in crowds, nervous around women, hungry with curiosity, a collector of comforting, unnecessary things.

But some, a very come to the gods all on their own They find their way—long and far it is, sometimes—and they wander up to the altars, shy and clumsy and embarrassed and alone, and when they can get the words out, they say, 'Well. Here I am

The Waverley sisters had married men as steadfast and normal as the women were mercurial and strange.