“Cursed, I was cursed, and my mother said shed given up magic for good, said it was a terrible thing, but she wasnt above using it to keep me at her side, and shes a hypocrite, a liar, a fraud and p...”

“I stretched out on the carpet, eyes glazed over, my heart whirring with frustration and fear, and as my mothers curse slowly, firmly, pushed my eyelids closed, my body went still. But on the inside...”

“I am going to be murdered.It wasnt any easier to face in the daytime.”

“This will be the night I escape. The thought repeated in my mind like a refrain, over and over, and I believed it so hard that I whispered it aloud: This will be the night I escape!”

“I am swimming and it is just sunrise, the sky so gray as to be almost invisible. I rise to the surface to breathe and thats when I see the dark shadow of a boat, gliding gently toward me in the wat...”

“The sky would be clear, colorless, mist blending together the air and the ocean, the waves whispering against the rocks.”

“One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.”

“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”

“Stephen kissed me in the spring,Robin in the fall,But Colin only looked at meAnd never kissed at all.Stephens kiss was lost in jest,Robins lost in play,But the kiss in Colins eyesHaunts me night an...”

“If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.”

“It may be laid down as a general rule that if a man begins to sing, no one will take any notice of his song except his fellow human beings. This is true even if his song is surpassingly beautiful. ...”

“Magic or nature, they were much the same thing to Magnus.”