“You must draw from that strength. You must increase it. And you must hold on to it because sometimes that small glimmer of inner strength is all that we have to help us press forward through the da...”

“Believe in magic. Believe in the impossible”

“She was murdered by rebels.' He took in her unconcealed look of shock. 'So there you go. Something for you to celebrate.' Magnus turned away from her, ready to find solace in his chambers, but the ...”

“You must continue to believe with all your heart. Sometimes belief is all if takes to make something real.”

“Memories of one's past are tainted. There are no truths to be found in them.”

“Magic will find those with pure heats, even when all seems lost. And love is the greatest magic of all. I know this to be true.”

“Question everythingno matter how beloved, or how long-held, or how exaltedwithout apology. Only those who build their world upon lies need fear an inquisitive mind. The truth will remain, even afte...”

“We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.”

“I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those of a middle generation, if charitable or sentimental, subscribe to the wisdom myth, while t...”

“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.”