20 quotes found
“Make me a shadow on the wall.”
“Make me a shadow on the wall!”
“Where there is life, there will be magic; the one generates the other.”
“Whatever happened next, good or bad, it would be wonderful finding out.”
“...for life is magic, magic is life, the left-over life we don't even notice we're living.”
“Never underestimate the ridiculous things that have been done in the name of religious-semantic obscurity.”
“When humans work, they frequently become unaware of their own body, their own senses, are surprised to find that their wrists ache or their backs are sore or their friend has left the building. It'...”
“You know how it is -- you get older, you get wiser, you start to ask yourself 'is it any use being able to summon creatures of the nether deeps when I could be watching BBC 4?”
“A small child being dragged to bed peered curiously at me as it passed, then waved. We waved back, not being entirely sure how else to respond to small creatures like that.”
“There was almost a flicker of humanity in the man. The kind of human who pulled wings off flies as a kid, but still human.”
“We be light, we be life, we be fire! We sing electric flame, we rumble underground wind, we dance heaven! Come be we and be free!”
“When we blaze, when we fight, when we rejoice, then I am all us, for that is all we are. When I am...afraid...we do not understand, do not like these things. We are me. It is...frightening, having ...”
“Life is magic.I knew, without having to ask, what she meant. Life was not the magic of spells or enchantments or sorcery; or, it was, but that was not the point. Life created magic as an accidental...”
“Men don't ask other men if they're getting home OK, they just assume that beneath the frail, weak exterior lurks a muscle-building kung fu master fearless of ever being mugged.”
“But it's not healthy! replied the Hag. A mortal and a god sharing the same flesh?You know, this isn't why we're here. I can get abuse pretty much wherever.Yeah, sighed the Maid, but I bet a tenner ...”
“Curiosity may have killed the cat, but paranoia was what tied it up in a sack and buried it in wet concrete.”
“The word spread. It began with the techno-literates: young summoners who couldnt quite get their containment circles right and who had fallen back on Facebook to keep themselves occupied while the...”
“When last I checked, you were a sorcerer, not a Jedi.""You've seen Star Wars?""Seen it and denounced it.""You've denounced Star Wars?"She looked me straight in the eye and said, "Hollywood should n...”
“But it's not healthy!” replied the Hag. “A mortal and a god sharing the same flesh?”“You know, this isn't why we're here. I can get abuse pretty much wherever.”“Yeah,” sighed the Maid, “but I bet a...”
“The word spread. It began with the techno-literates: young summoners who couldn’t quite get their containment circles right and who had fallen back on Facebook to keep themselves occupied while the...”
