“It's important, when you see magic, to recognize it. You don't often get a second chance.”

“Because when you try too hard to hold on to something, you break it...Sometimes, we need to let go so that other people can have their chance at the magic.”

“You never need an invitation to go home.”

“[B]eing very smart must also make you just a little bit crazy.”

“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.”