Quotes about magic

“What do you see here?”

“Books?”

“Indeed, books. They are the ocean in which magic swims.”

I had said before that all stories were magic. It had never occurred to me that all magic was stories.

If books are indeed magic (and does anyone really believe otherwise?), then they are a collaborative magic between author and reader.

Primitive man would see every one of us as a magician.

She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying. (p22)

“‘Different laws of physics,’” said Ariel, “and ‘supernatural’ seem synonymous to me.”

Magic, after all? He felt the untrimmed hair at the nape of his neck rising. But then, maybe it was just electronics—magic rationalized.

Sometimes the short road is not the safest ... Sorcery is a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.

Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.

Sorcery works against Nature, magic works with it.

Magic is merely communication, after all.

Communication, and conduits.

There’s not such thing as magic that does no harm.