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“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.”
“I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.”
“This is the simplest of spells, and foundation to all others. Magic seeks to better understand, and eventually to build on, the connection between minds and bodies. Even to calm a storm, you treat ...”
“It was magic, the oldest magic of all when day became night, gods working in tandem, and I gave it the full benefit of my witness for the singular wonder it was.”
“A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or what did you think that stuff in your chest was? A magician is strong ...”
“I think youre magicians because youre unhappy. A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or what did you think that...”
“Sometimes, when it seems like the pain is never going to end, I wish Id gotten a different suite of magical talents from my mother. Like the power to avoid situations that end with me willingly jam...”
“He turned then and those blue eyes met hers from across the sea of people. Her stomach bottomed out. Damn it. She couldn't be attracted to the arrogant ass.Somehow repeating herself wasn't helping.”
“Music is the strongest form of magic.”
“Ah, music, a magic beyond all we do here.”
“You get a few of them together and dont be surprised if pipes and drums appear out of nowhere. It is a sort of magic people believe in”
“But should you ever come to a time when you need to say something upon my behalf, say this, 'The last truth is that there is no magic.”
“Despite all my public misconduct, in the past year, I had learned the Elemental spells, the Doppelschlferin, and the preparation and flying of a magic broom; I had survived two months as prisoner o...”
“Must I accept the barren Gift?-learn death, and lose my Mastery?Then let them know whose blood and breathwill take the Gift and set them free:whose is the voice and whose the mindto set at naught t...”
“Nobody can tell you about that sword all that there is to be told of it; for those that know of those paths of Space on which its metals once floated, till Earth caught them one by one as she saile...”
“Magic is a science.Miracle is the work.Mind is a laboratory.”
“Your mind is a magic pot, from which you pick the things, and manifest life out of it. If you dont tell your mind, your priorities, it will be easier for your mind, to pick anything, to serve you w...”
“To be able to see a magic, you need to have a mind that can detect that magic!”